4 PM's not spam, but not for me
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4 PM's not spam, but not for me
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
No bother whatsoever but just wondering if some forum glitch was misdirecting messages.
EDIT, no action required Martin has sorted it
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- Dynamic Mike
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Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
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
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
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Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
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
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
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Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
Here I was, thinking I was special.
Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
Martin Walker wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 5:36 pm 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?
- Tomás Mulcahy
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Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
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
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Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
But what *is* the input voltage of a T Rex Spin Doctor?
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- Dinkleberry
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Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
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!
We know where he lives!
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- James Lehmann
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Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
I quite like a Budvar.
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- shufflebeat
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Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
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.
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.
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Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
I've had about 7 or 8 so far and I haven't logged into this site in years.
- MASSIVE Mastering
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Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
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!
Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
MASSIVE Mastering wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 6:26 pm 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.
Deft wrote: 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.
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