R Soul on 5/1/2006 at 21:37
It'd be nice if we could have some program on our computers that we could use to download our PMs to. Then they'd be stored on our hard drives with the only limit being our disk space. I know we can already download them in various formats but they're not very user friendly.
I was thinking of something that had a similar look and feel to the online system.
It would also be handy if we could reply to the PMs directly from this program, or would that cause too many security issues?
Gingerbread Man on 5/1/2006 at 21:47
I'm trying really hard to see the point of something like that, but it's eluding me.
That's not to say I think it's a stupid idea or anything, just that I don't quite understand what the advantage of such a thing would be.
Have I ever mentioned how unclever I am?
David on 5/1/2006 at 21:49
I don't really see the point in it too be honest. Far too much work for extremely little payoff.
Also I'm not coding it :D
R Soul on 5/1/2006 at 23:20
Well I'm not going to pretend I've given it more than a couple minutes thought, but I saw yet another post where someone said to someone else "...ps your inbox is full" and it made me think "what if it were possible to have some other means of PM storage with the same funcionality as the current means."
Perhaps if the user had 100 messages then they could be automatically put onn their computer to allow them to continue recieving PMs
Am I dreaming the impossible dream??
mopgoblin on 6/1/2006 at 01:25
The obvious solution would be to have an option to have the forum send any excess messages to your email, but then you wouldn't have the ability to reply to those new messages easily. An option to have it send a copy of all messages via email, and delete the oldest messages from the PM inbox (and not from other PM folders, so messages can be protected by shifting them out of the inbox) when it fills up might also be worth considering.
Is there currently any sort of notification (outside of the PM pages) when the inbox is close to full, like the total number in the "Private Messages: Unread <i>x</i>, Total <i>y</i>." thing changing colour? What about a dialogue-popup-thing if someone has tried to send you a message and there's no more space?
Gingerbread Man on 6/1/2006 at 03:16
Oho, I see.
But surely the solution would be for people to maintain their PM boxes a little more rigorously? Like, download and delete when it got to say 90 or so?
Shadowcat on 6/1/2006 at 11:27
Inline Image:
http://tinypic.com/js0ny8.jpgOh. Not that sort of PM.
Well... How to reply to downloaded PMs:
Step 1) Start a new PM to originator of downloaded message.
Step 2) Copy and paste original text from downloaded copy into PM.
Seriously, do you really need custom software to do this for you? Are you replying to
so many really old PMs that it would be a genuine burden to manually copy and paste?
I guess I don't use the PMs a whole lot, and maybe some of you send and receive them on a daily basis, but the idea still seems a little excessive.
Shug on 6/1/2006 at 16:40
clearly someone doesn't know what it's like to be in demand :cool:
Shadowcat on 6/1/2006 at 23:33
no one loves me
*sniffle*
