# What's the private message count on non-member accounts?

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**Created:** [July 6, 2018, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-private-message-count-on-non-member-accounts/817441 "2018-07-06T22:54:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-private-message-count-on-non-member-accounts/817441/1 "2018-07-06T22:54:47Z")

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My membership expired this week because I forgot about it and there wasn’t a big notice for renewal or anything on the boards. I’m not thrilled about paying twice as much to get a non-charter member title so I just let it go. (I would continue to pay to be a charter member, but I don’t think that’s an option)

I just now came to realize that PM message box is full, I’m assuming because I let that membership lapse and got reduced in size due to no longer being a premium account.

How many messages are allowed in a free user’s PM box? I have 450ish messages saved - I know, I could delete a lot of them, but most of them are from trade talks and stuff for the dynasty fantasy football league and they’re interesting to go back and look at over the years. Some are just insightful messages that I want to keep. But I suspect I’m going to need to delete a massive amount of them.

What’s the number I need to get them down under?

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-private-message-count-on-non-member-accounts/817441/2 "2018-07-06T23:00:04Z")

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Mine says 500.

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**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-private-message-count-on-non-member-accounts/817441/3 "2018-07-06T23:04:34Z")

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Right, but you’re a charter member. Mine was also 500. But when I try to send a new message, it says “message box full, you can’t send any messages until you clear it out” - so I think when I let my membership status fall, I went from 500 to… 100? 200? Whatever the non-member rate is. Was wondering how many hundreds of messages I need to delete.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-private-message-count-on-non-member-accounts/817441/4 "2018-07-06T23:07:54Z")

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1. And note you can download them.

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**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-private-message-count-on-non-member-accounts/817441/5 "2018-07-06T23:29:32Z")

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I should’ve looked closer - didn’t notice the download buttons. That makes this easy. Thanks.