The problem is fixed now, something happened on the server end.
I did catch the thread where they are considering killing the pm feature, I'm on a much larger board which doesn't have this issue, at least the way its setup mass spamming wouldn't work, after so many pm sent in a short time your held back for a while, along with you can only address one person at a time. Mods/admins still have the ability to send mass, however no user accounts do. Just a thought.
