It seems a common ploy of spammers is to say how restricting the built in message system is so they need your email. Well to protect our members we have dramatically increased the length of private messages. You can now make them as long as you like! No more length restrictions. We hope that this will allow our users to use the built in messaging system rather than trading emails. The built in system is much safer since you do not have to give out your email and you can also use the reporting system with private messages.