I'm glad we can only receive mail from people on our friends list otherwise I'm pretty sure I'd have to delete a bunch of RMT messages telling me where and how to buy gil ~___~ The thing about LS/FC being able to send me messages, it could work but, it could backfire as well. For example, not all LS/FC are made up from only the nicest of the nice people. And some of the less nice ones might not get expelled from the LS/FC, for whatever reason, resulting in possible spam and abuse. Heaven forbid a RMT gets a hold on one of their accounts, as we see it happen. For better or worse I can just add people from my LS/FC when needed. Sure it delays the whole thing a while but it's no biggie.

As for the character limit.... Personally, I'm glad that I never have to read more than 200 characters per mail in game >.> We have both LS and FC forums where we can have lengthier conversations, if there ever is a need for one. If I need to tell anyone something in bigger detail I'll just ask them via Moogle Mail to take a look at our forums.