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[Moonchilde]

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@libbyannE wrote:

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@oceantown wrote:

@libbyannE,

To answer your question, there has been a time or two that I would have liked to have the option to send a private message. 

One time recently, a thread was getting a little contentious, and I thought it may be deleted.  After thinking about the subject of the thread, I really wanted to post another reply that I thought would be very helpful to the poster.  But, there was no chance.  The thread was gone. 

That is one example.  There are times around here that topics do not stay around for very long. 

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@oceantown

Hi. Good point. My concern would be on the receiving end: Do people want to receive unsolicited personal messages? Some don't, but some people might not mind and might even welcome the info or the "company." 

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The function on all forums is such that each poster decides  whether they want to be able to receive PMs. It's not set up so everyone has it whether they want it or not. If these forums had it working, it's very possible that the person you were trying to reach would have theirs turned off and you would get a notification saying so. The alternative is that a poster accepts PMs only from those they have designated as "friends."

[Mj12]

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@ladyroxanne wrote:

@Mj12

i hope you see this.  you are one of my favorite all time posters.

merry christmas and happy new year!

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@ladyroxanne You are one of mine! 

Merry Christmas to you!

[ladyroxanne]

@Mj12

thanks mj!

[Moonchilde]

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@chickenbutt wrote:

The thing I've always seen with PM software on boards is that you can also set your own settings.  You can block any PMs, so that it just won't go and, assumably, tell the sender the it's been blocked.  Or you can set to only get them from 'friends' and you, obviously, would check certain posters as 'friends'.

So, it wouldn't be compulsory just like other settings.   I still get that it probably wouldn't be a good idea on THIS board.  But there are always choices.

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LOL, @chickenbutt I didn't see your post before I just posted the sane thing - oops!

[Suziepeach]

@ladyroxanne, thank you!  I enjoy your posts as well...