Efficient Use of Private Message Storage
We members are allotted storage space for saved private messages. I have found it useful to maintain a record of whom I’ve communicated with in the past. The limit on the number of stored messages varies with one’s level of board support, but most of us run low from time to time, which necessitates research of the message stack to cull older ones. Swappin & Sellin correspondence tends to be the most hungry for digital space.
My practice is always to use the reply function instead of composing a new message. If my correspondent does the same, then the last message contains a full record of all communications, so that any other individual messages can be deleted, thus saving storage space. Message are stored per each, no length limits have been observed. Thus, a single message using the reply method can store all the info held in a dozen or more single messages. There is no efficiency whatever in composing new messages. This serves only to clutter the in and out boxes.
So, I recommend we all do this.
