>but how will he know how many letters are currently in thier mailbox so
>that he can send no more than the Max number of msgs?...

Your message and Paul's message were crossposted. He agrees on what you say. :)

IAC, like I mentioned in the Corel Applications forum, this is a restriction that should be removed for users on Compuserve. Whenever that will be case, I will remove the validation.