Logged into FT after a few days on the road to the message in the upper-right corner welcome box:

Strange, I thought--I didn't think I was that close to the limit.

I pulled up my inbox to this message:

Something's wrong there. Either there is some current technical glitch that should hopefully be resolved shortly, or the admins recently reduced the maximum number of PMs allowed.

Any ideas? Any fixes in sight that don't require me to take an hour to comb through the messages so I don't accidentally delete important ones? (How about an "Export PMs to Text" option for archival purposes? I'm too used to Gmail's forget-about-deleting-stuff method of organizing stuff to have to worry about keeping my PM in and sent boxes clean...)

There is already an option to export PM's to your PC in several formats.

Open your PM Folder and in the bottom right-hand corner you'll see this:


You can choose whichever method works best for you and your OS.

On the PM limit question, I'll let the HOM's respond as I'm not sure if this was affected by our recent software upgrade.

I believe for the free-rider FTers, 500 PM is the limit. For FT Premiums, the PM limit is higher.

Is jackal a free-rider FT or just "downgraded" from a FT Premium?

I pay my way! Well, I used to. Mikel confirmed my subscription lapsed...the day I arrived in SYD, to boot!

Will fix it shortly...so if anyone is wanting to send me a PM, I should be able to get them soon. (I'm paying AU$2 per 20 minutes on a kiosk run by netkiosk with a horribly slow processor (and a non-tabbed browser) and even horribly slower 320kbps DSL connection, so I'll try my best to navigate to the appropriate places this session!