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yup, i've been doing some cleanup regarding to user groups & permissions.
if i'm not mistaken, this forum was started back in 2003 and throughout the past 14 years things got a bit messy.

in an effort to tidy things up and unify a lot of things, several changes have been made over the last 2 days.

i've checked, and you currently have moderator permissions in the hardware section.

please double-check if the PM problem has been resolved now (i had to clear some forum caches).
iirc each user can store 200 PM's in total (inbox/sent/drafts/trash combined)

 Hi Ronie

Thanks for getting back to me - I hadn't ever realised my moderator powers were limited to the hardware forum!  (It used to say 'Super Moderator' under my name and someone asked me to lock a thread - which wasn't in the hardware forum - and I suddenly realised everything looked a bit different)

Have zapped all my sent PMs and then zapped the wastebasket - so I'm away from limited (I downloaded them as HTML so I still have them if I ever need them)

Thanks again.