Hi GT,
Normally I consider your contributions quite valuable, but I do take a bit of exception to this one, and I think you're missing the point.
Neither my inquiry, or the subsequent response, were in any way violating privacy or right to choose. I didn't ask, 'hey where does Rose live or what's her number'. I just asked 'is she around somewhere else, to the best of anyone's knowledge?' If she chose to retire, that's absolutely her choice, and I'll stop hoping to see her. But maybe she's independent now, and choosing to advertise away from this site. I know of several SPs who did just that, due to one circumstance or another 😉
So if someone knows that she's advertising somewhere else, and they tell me that, wouldn't you expect that Rose would appreciate the extra business, rather than consider the exchange of readily - available information an invasion of her privacy?
Edit: Thinking about this more, I can understand if someone left one advertising environment to escape bad clientele, and therefore might not want her new ad location revealed to the old environment.