It would be pretty sweet if there was a way to download the PMs into a preserved database file to our HDs. But I can deal with this.
You forget that AnandTech is free, we support them with views/clicks of banners, nothing more, and diskspace, viewed by individual case, seems small, but there are a lot of members with a alot of PMs, and this can bog down the server. I'd rather have the server respond quickly instead of being able to hold thousands of PMs.