> :( Sadly, yes, it seems it is a universal problem. I didn't realize Spades had sent me a PM about the Purple phobia until this morning, which was something like 17 hours after I got it. 
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> The fact that it DOES count messages, but they're only your own sent ones, is almost like adding insult to injury...

Probably just a bug in the coding, it's likely an easy mistake to count sent messages instead of received ones, since they're so similar.