[cflsystems]

There is a newsletter box (es) to opt-in for emails. This option (emails or not) should always be opt-in and not opt-out - some comanies are doing it as opt-out and this is wrong. So this solves the I want/not emails issue.

As for the anonymous customers info not being saved - again - a customer is a customer no matter what; their info should be saved. I don't think QT left it out because some XC stores use it to send out emails - after all how you operate your store is up to you. I think they just ran into a problem with the new way of using emails are username so just decided to drop off the anonymouos customers. Jon's way of saving the data works just fine.
I hope QT will reconsider this and put it back in. My opinion - serious flaw in the way XC works.

(at least QT has an oportunity to hear different points of view)