It looks like LinkedIn now forces your emails to go through them

I'm really not impressed--the features they are adding are the wrong features! You used to be able to email your contacts from their site. I have been thinking of LinkedIn as a replacement for keeping casual contacts email addresses in Outlook, but now I'm not so sure. What's the next step--only being able to send emails to your own contacts if you have an "enhanced" membership?

Not hard to see why a lot of people think Facebook is going to eat LinkedIn's lunch.