Do you use the privates messages feature?

[Tom DeMille]

Sent 1, received a reply 2 weeks later.

Bottom line, to me, it's unwanted fluff. If it's slowing the server down, then I'd vote for getting rid of it.

[XarXo]

-/-

[Paul]

Narck, in the PM preferences you have an option to get an email warning when someone sends you a PM.

So, how are things going in the States? Feeling at home already or would you rather come back to the Netherlands?

[MarkG]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by rah on 08-12-2000 08:21 PM</font>
If it was listed in the individual forums instead of just on the main page more people might use it.
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>already plan to do it...

[MarkG]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Narck on 08-14-2000 04:19 PM</font>
No. It would be a lot nicer, if it was possible to see a message somewhere on the screen saying "you have new messages", without having to log in first.
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>how will the script recognize you if you dont login?
btw, the script reads the username/password cookie, so if you have your preferences set to keep a cookie, then you shouldnt have a problem
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</font>And not just on the main screen, but wherever the initial bookmark leads to...
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>again if your cookie is ok, the script show new and older messages like the new and older threads(red and yellow folders)

[MarkG]

since you made a public post, you'll get a public answer

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by XarXo on 08-14-2000 04:45 PM</font>
Umm, do you read the emails?
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>i do. but i'm also busy with other things you know. i'm not trying to show or something, but take a look at how many updates we do...
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</font>I send an email asking for join the Civilization Decency Act. No answer.

I resend this email to Dan Q., the same...
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>given the opportunity, i'll answer: no, at this time, sicne you've showed no respect in the sense of the CDA
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</font>I send an email asking for permission for the Steve Mariotti's interview. No answer.
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>and you decided to take it anyway....
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</font>I send an email advertising you about some changes in your link section. No answer.
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>if it is about changing an entry in the links section, you have modified your entries several times, i'm sure you can do it again
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</font>I only received something when I posted my site in your Ctp2 links section.
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>which passed through my hands(all additions/modifications in the links pages have to be accepted by me first), and which was done in a matter of hours...
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</font>But only with an advice to remove the Steve Mariotti's interview. (a happy letter...)
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>you had no right to post it
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</font>After this, 2 emails more have been sent asking for the permission about the %&%@# interview that I traducted into spanish.
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>i recieved one, AFTER my complaint...
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</font>I think that I'm in the ignore list of your email service or something similar!
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>i have currently 150 mails in my inbox to read...

[XarXo]

For Markos:

Finally!!! YOU answered!

OK, you are right and I'm not. Please accept my apologize.

I put your interview, yes, but it always had a link to your site at the top of the page with a promotion of it. Your web is always the first one in all (except one) the links section of the web. I don't put a link to your document because you site is only in english, and mine only in Spanish.

All the webs where I obtain info I put a link to it, and if the document is made by the administrator of the web I put a link to its site.

I think that are sufficient Dececency Acts considering the thousands of webs that literally copy all the documents.

I know that you are 24h-365d webmaster, I know that you receive lots of email, and I know that I'm a bit an annoying one.

This is why during my CanalCiv epoch I give you a small "trophy" (can you remember something similar to a dancing tree?), so,
excuse me Markos.

[Empress]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Dookie on 08-13-2000 01:14 PM</font>
I've received around 15, mostly from Empress...I don't know why she's desperate to have a piece of me
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You are terrible! YOU are the one who sends messeges to me! I merely respond!

[Gatekeeper]

Markos, et al.:

Well, Ming (unknowingly) agreed to be my guinea pig when I tested the PM system. Suffice to say, it worked magnificently! Look forward to when the PM will be a visible access option on all the forums.

CYBERAmazon

[Alexander's Horse]

Ming doesn't use it

[Gatekeeper]

AH:

Hmm ... maybe that was his ghost who replied to my PM then, huh? Or an e-apparition? Or, perhaps, he simply picks and chooses to whom he will reply to.

CYBERAmazon

[Alexander's Horse]

Oh well he lies then

[MarkG]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by MarkG on 08-15-2000 03:33 PM</font>
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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by rah on 08-12-2000 08:21 PM</font>
If it was listed in the individual forums instead of just on the main page more people might use it.
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>already plan to do it...

<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>done

[Legman]

Great! Now I can keep track of the fact that I still havent received more than one PM without going to the front page.

Seriously, having the inbox displayed on the individual forum pages is very userfriendly. Thanks MarkG.

[MarkG]

<u>there is also now a "Private Messages" option at the bottom of the "hop to" drop-down boxes in forum summaries(forumdisplay.cgi) and threads(with new posts as of now)</u>
<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by MarkG (edited August 19, 2000).]</font>