I tried to message the OP, Easterndriver, to ask if any of this was at all helpful to him. If I were just starting out, I would be very confused by most of the posts here, and in fact he disengaged after two posts.

However, I got a message that he was 'over his private reply limit'.

What does that mean??

Is there some limitation on new forum members not receiving private messages until they make more posts? Something else?

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