The reason we removed the link is because SFI is no longer sending out the automatic congratulatory e-mails via its system. We believe that a cold, impersonal e-mail from our corporate servers is no substitute from hearing from you, the sponsors, directly. Statistics seem to back this approach up.
A sample e-mail message that you can cut and paste and edit to suit your own approach and style is at:
This was announced in the SFI Affiliate Newsletter.
The main reason we made this change is as Lori stated. It is much better for all concerned to send a personal email when you have a new EA in your group as opposed to having our system send out a cold, boilerplate message that will probably more offend your new EA than anything.
They're thinking, "Wow, I move up to EA and all I get from my sponsor is a lousy autoresponder email." )
We should have made this change LONG ago actually!