A frequent irritant: the text limit restricts your messages to a certain size. Long messages are difficult if you can only paste 1000 characters at a time. What's a long-winded person to do?

The solution lies with directly connecting with your buddy. Just go to "Connect to send image" under your People menu (or the 'image button'). You can now send as much text as you want without worrying that someone might throw you off-track before you finish or cutting & pasting several little snippets of conversations.