I am trying to ensure that new posters can't send private messages. We have spammers sign up and start sending PMs to people with sales pitches and it annoys our users.

I already have security set up so that people don't "become full members" until they make X posts, so I need to know what item to enable and disable to make this happen.

In the group settings it says

"Total # of private topics allowed "

but in the messages area it has "private messages". Are these the same things?


Lisa Shea, owner, BellaOnline.com
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