Do you know an approximate relationship between our new points and the old 2, 3, 4, 5?

Well, I can take a stab at it...

This is 10 point
This is size 2
[size=10pt]This is 10 point[/size]
[size=2]This is size 2[/size]
This is 12 point
This is size 3
[size=12pt]This is 12 point[/size]
[size=3]This is size 3[/size]
This is 14 point
[size=13.5pt]This is 13.5 point[/size]
This is size 4
[size=14pt]This is 14 point[/size]
[size=13.5pt]This is 13.5 point[/size]
[size=4]This is size 4[/size]
This is 17 point
This is size 5
[size=17pt]This is 17 point[/size]
[size=5]This is size 5[/size]
You didn't ask for size 1, but it's the default for the preview feature, so--

This is 7 point
This is size 1
[size=7pt]This is 7 point[/size]
[size=1]This is size 1[/size]
Eh, close enough.  And probably way more approximate than you wanted. 

Well Midnite, I tried!!!

Fixed it.  The bill is in the mail. 

This caught at least a few people by surprise, myself included, so I probably should explain that the 120 second limit on posting (which was put in place to prevent spewing [repeatedly submitting posts in rapid succession] on the forums) now includes any combination of posting and personal messaging.  In other words, after you send a PM you're required to wait 120 seconds before you can submit a post or send another PM, or if you start by making a post you then have to wait... you get the picture.  I don't know why the SMF developers added private messaging to the mix, but I suspect it may have been to thwart flooding of other mailboxes with PMs.

BTW, if you get a 120 second limit error message, figure on having to wait another 120 seconds.  Take it from someone who sends a lot of PMs.   :-

I don't see how to ONLY list it on calendar (without a topic being generated).

You can't.  That's how YaBB SE was originally, and SMF's calendar is set up the same way.

The Post No Topic option was added to our SE forum by MB at your request a year ago.  See the "Post No Topic" thread that's been stuck to the top of the newest Calendar board (currently it's stuck to CE/A 04) ever since.  Your response in which you thanked him for it is there too.   Sweetie, I'm going to have to send you some ginkgo biloba. 

Anyway, custom changes like that won't be made until MB is more familiar with the internal workings of this new system.

Just a suggestion - on the WordPerfect forum I use, they make a big deal about the fact that robots often get e-mail addresses from websites, increasing the spam one receives.

They suggest disguising the address, for example:  nardoz at earthlink dot net

Spam IS a very big deal, but that idea isn't going to fool a sophisticated spam bot, sorry.

I changed the address in my original post, and I apologize if it causes any confusion but it's the best I can do.  Even if I send Julianka7 to his website instead, a spammer could grab the url and still get his email via this topic because his address is posted on his own site.

Can they be collapsed/compressed?

No.

Hi!

You can reach him at nardoz-no-spam-@earthlink.net

Remove:  -no-spam-

Julia is frantically trying to contact the police.  From the other side of the door, Barnabas calls out to her, "Julia, remember... someone!"  Dr. Lang (who shouldn't know anything about Dave's murder) supplies the name "Dave Woodard," and Barnabas exclaims, "Yes!  Remember Dave Woodard!"