Believe it or not, the forums were specifically designed to be separate. Our original concept was to have the forums entirely separated; not even sharing the same userbase. However, we decided it would be best to allow users from every state to view the entire system in order to make the best use of the information. The design purposely encourages users to mainly post within their own state and relative subjects, but still be able to peruse other state forums for other/additional information, and of course for the sake of curiosity. One of the drawbacks to this design was that certain aspects could not be globalized. Whether or not posting privileges on other forums will be modified in the future is up to enwiabe, and perhaps he can expound on all of this further. Unfortunately, without a complete redesign of the system, PMs and other such aspects will not be available across all the boards... Possibly sometime in the future depending on the needs and requests of the community as well as the success of the other forums. So, uhh, we'll see. =/