Hi folks,

Our database that stores everybody's messages is starting to reach critical mass (we have about 2.4 million messages!) and we're now at the point where I unfortunately have to start implementing auto-deletion of old messages.

In about two weeks from now (I'll give more warning closer to the time) I'll be turning on message deletion, which will slowly start deleting messages older than roughly 85 real-life days.

However, we know some of you are dearly attached to your messages, so to that end we'll be introducing a command to let to preserve selected messages. You can preserve up to 1,000 messages per character, and it'll cost you 100 gold per message to preserve it.

Syntax:
MSG PRESERVE <msg#> Preserves your message, costing 100 gold.
MSG PRESERVED LIST Lists and counts your preserved messages.
MSG UNPRESERVE <msg#> Stop preserving a message, leaving it open to deletion.

MSG FOLDER PRESERVE <folder> Preserves all the messages in a folder at once.
MSG FOLDER UNPRESERVE <folder> Unpreserves all messages in the folder.

If you have any questions about these changes, leave me a message and I'll get back to you.

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