A lot of you have done a very good job of deleting PMs, and for that we are grateful. There is an underlying problem, however, that keeps the number of PMs on our server very large, and that is that a Private Message is not deleted from our server until ALL participants have deleted it from their PM box.

I learned that there was one PM (a 'party' PM) that had been going for almost 4 months and had over 10,000 replies in it. There were dozens of participants, and several of them refused to delete it. Others had not logged in for many, many months and had never even read it, much less deleted it. It is gone now, but only because I worked over the weekend to remove it from the PM boxes of the remaining participants. While I was working on that, I noticed that many members still have many pages of PMs, some of them quite large.

Those kinds of things are already preventing us from backing up the forums, and they have the potential to take down the forums altogether. If that happens, we could lose everything here and have to start all over. Arthur is very unhappy with this situation. We simply cannot continue to allow people to store that many PMs. You will be seeing a lot of changes within the next week, and I will be announcing those changes soon.