4 PM's not spam, but not for me

[Dynamic Mike]

Hi, I have received 4 private messages from 2 long established members Martin Walker and John Egan that weren't addressed to me.

No bother whatsoever but just wondering if some forum glitch was misdirecting messages.

EDIT, no action required Martin has sorted it

[Hugh Robjohns]

I think we can blame finger trouble and John's unfamiliarity with the less-than-clear Forum PM system, rather than malicious intent.

I don't know why the PM system currently allows everyone access to global broadcast modes that engulf the entire membership, but we will investigate and remove those options if at all possible.

H

[fm_xtk]

I have also received those messages and am glad to they are not spam and nobody's been hacked.

[OneWorld]

I have also received those messages and am glad to they are not spam and nobody's been hacked.

Same here. I thought I'd become popular all of a sudden! Don't all rush back and say 'Nah" LOL

[Martin Walker]

Whoops - sorry about that everyone!

It's not often that we actually get to see a glitch in The Matrix, but rest assured (as Hugh said) we'll do our best to make sure this can't happen again.

Martin

[DTB]

Me too

[auxpin]

I received 7 messages from 3 different users. I didn't open them just in case!

[Darclinc]

Here I was, thinking I was special.

[Tomás Mulcahy]

Whoops - sorry about that everyone!

It's not often that we actually get to see a glitch in The Matrix, but rest assured (as Hugh said) we'll do our best to make sure this can't happen again.

Martin

OK but can we still be friends?

[Wonks]

I think Martin needs to buy a beer for every registered forum user.

[wdsteele]

Good to know , just received one from John Egan re a T Rex pedal query , so a pint from John too !

[Martin Walker]

OK but can we still be friends?

Of course we can Tomás - thanks for your understanding

I've already had a request from one user who has been a forum member for 16 years but never ever posted, to permanently delete his account after I spammed tf out of his inbox

Martin

[Dinkleberry]

But what *is* the input voltage of a T Rex Spin Doctor?

[James Lehmann]

I think the dude who somehow managed to spam PM the entire SOS Forum Membership might be wise to change his name after this.

We know where he lives!

[Barows]

Lots of these email notifications coming through now - 13 so far, and still coming.

[shufflebeat]

I quite like a Budvar.

[Eddy Deegan]

Yes, I expect there will be a number of messages flying around for a while in the PM system before it all settles down.

At this point, please don't reply to any of the messages in that particular PM thread, especially as at least some people appear to be receiving multiple copies of every PM sent to that discussion.

It will be sorted out and measures taken to prevent it happening again but as has already been said, on this occasion it was an unfortunate error by a genuine user and not a deliberate spam attack.

[MASSIVE Mastering]

I've had about 7 or 8 so far and I haven't logged into this site in years.

[Deft]

Pretty awesome that you can PM everyone. Reminds me of an internal company email which somehow got sent to 40,000 people. I was quite amazed that at least 20-30 people thought the best idea was to reply to all saying "I don't think this message is for me". This was then followed up by 1 irate person asking to be removed from this email conversation. I suppose as a proportion of the list this wasn't too bad!

[Eddy Deegan]

I've had about 7 or 8 so far and I haven't logged into this site in years.

Welcome back ... but apologies for the inconvenience.

To recap for anyone catching up, a message was mistakenly sent in the form of a private message to every user instead of being posted as a new topic in the public forums.

Pretty awesome that you can PM everyone.

Indeed ... and an oversight also! It'll be fixed but as you rightly point out it is much the same as the classic 'reply all' problem with an email sent to everybody at once.

[RichardT]

A colleague of mine once accidentally emailed everyone in Shell UK, which ran to many thousands of people.

Lots of people replied-all saying 'it's not for me'.

Then lots of people replied-all saying 'please don't reply all', which was somewhat ironic!

I wonder if that will happen here

[Hugh Robjohns]

Looks like we're heading that way...

[Humble Bee]

Pint of Tetleys!
Ta lov!

[Kontakte]

Seriously, its just spam? Wtf? I thought I had my account hacked. Shouldn't allow a feature to contact every member. Thought some gobsh&te was using my account to sell stuff for a moment. Happened to me before on ebay.

Grr