We are sorry, but you are not authorised to use this feature. You may have just registered here and may need to participate more to be able to use this feature. I think it's a bit pointless not being able to send PMs when you're a "new user". :) (And that's also the reason I'm not respond...
Haven't touched phpBB in quite a while, but I think it would be enough if you remove us from the "new users" group for now. Also, while we are at groups, you may want to add people to the global moderator group instead of assigning forum moderator rights to every single person. ;) And anot...
If you're willing to use a modified server I could look into doing that in the server code. But if you have B3 running anyway that's probably easier, I just hate Python lol.