Hi Laly,

Thinking some more about this, if you use the email option, you have no way of knowing whether the sender has a virus that can infect your machine or harvest your email address for spam purposes. Using private messaging keeps everything in the forum.

I may be missing something here, but if not, it may actually be safer for users to use private messaging than to allow other users to send them emails. It's not really like IM, but more like a mail system where inbound messages go into your inbox while sent messages go into your sent folder. I think Jack can control the number of messages that each user can keep so as not to take up too much space on the server.

Hope this helps,

Onthepath