A few day’s ago, I got a PM from a Newbie that was also a Copper Member. It seemed odd that a Newbie could send me a PM,  since I had the "allow newbies to send you PMs" disabled. I asked some related questions on another post, but I only got an answer from a @Nnuego who tried to guess the answers to his best knowledge, but wasn’t really sure either.

These are the questions that I'd like to get an answer to:

-   Are Copper Members meant to be able to bypass the Newbie PM restriction?

-   If so, shouldn’t this perhaps be revised after the Jr. Member demotions and (presumably) increase of Copper Member purchases by Newbies?


In addition, I’ve had a third one in the back of my mind for some time, that is related to the timeframe applicable to the forum rules:

-   Can someone get banned for plagiarism (or else), for a post written let’s say two or three years ago? (or even longer).

Thanks.