It might, Indy...but my thinking is that members should just adhere to the site owner's instructions for now in order to facilitate BigTex's attempts to track down the problem(s) with the site.
For example, I noticed BarnGoddess in another thread mentioned she had cleaned out her PM Box, which would seem to be a good logical move ... I save and clear my PM folder out on a weekly basis. It's very easy to save your PM's to your own HDD and empty those folders which would obviously free up some of Tricia's DB space on the server.
It's quite possible that once BigTex is further along, more requests to lighten up the DB might be forthcoming...or not.