Thanks for the info Mazz, have managed to PM a member with that help.When you need to Private Message someone on this site, use the "Conversations" tool. Either click their name and click "start a conversation," or you can click your own name at the top right and find the conversations menu. In there you can "Start a new conversation" and you will need to input the persons name. Method 1 is easiest.
No it doesn't!Private messaging restricts character count to 420 so short messages only.
Maybe you were typing in the title/subject matter line which does have a limit.Sorry then - I have no idea what I did wrong.