was it not enough? Is there something we can do? Deleting PMs that have more than 50 posts, for example?

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.

Oh! I understand now! That's really a problem!

I think that peoples have to be more responsible and must know that they can save a thread on their computer. The only difficult is that they have to save each page of the same topic, one by one. It's tiresome but feasible!
And so they may keep the PMs they love!

We must consider now that PMs are only for quick help (for example when have to give a spoiler) and can be deleted very soon!

If we want to get a "Private Conversation", that's not the same thing and it's better to do it on other "Private Forums"!!

For games and fictions, there is the Kittenangel2001's forum: LDW Games Stories for example.

I don't know what to say more for now but I'm sure we may help you, Barbara and dear administrators . I hope!

Well, I go back to my PMs to save the more I can and delete them!

I feel responsible for keeping certain PM's, and I hope to get rid of all PM's that seem to have taken a backseat to me now. I just went over my PM's and stumbled across one that I think is fairly important, though. So I'm kinda glad that this came up.

I got rid of all the pms and maybe some are not getting the massage and don't log in and maybe send them email or something. Just an idea to get the massage across

Barbara, if they don't get deleted, please let me do it for you!!

Just joking, yall. But if it were up to me; I'd give a deadline and then do it for you. Kaboom, all gone!

It may come to that.

Yikes.

For me or you? Who is going to have fun? I left four on mine, all of which are very small; but if I must, I will delete after printing.

I copied all of my important PMs to text files and deleted them from my PM box. And, of course, I have backups of my computer, too, just in case.