Hi, Since we've had our second incidence of this in the past couple weeks (and only a couple instances in the decade prior), I've had to institute some restrictions on the use of private messaging by new users. PMs by newly-registered members: 1) have fewer recipients at any one time 2) have restrictions on how many can be sent in a given time frame (i.e., PMs are throttled) 3) have restrictions on the amount of time between messages I don't think this will restrict legitimate use of private messaging too much. We'll see if the problem continues. PS If you do receive spam via private messaging, please report it via the "report spam" triangle in the upper right of the message.