Private Message question

slowair · Post by **slowair** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:23 pm

I've got four messages sitting in my OUTBOX. One has been there since August!!!
What am I doing wrong that these messages never got sent?
Mike

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:16 am

The not glitch answer is: no one read them, which (I think) would have moved it to sent box.

Can you delete them?

Have you tried sending to yourself?

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:38 am

Denny is right, if the person you sent them to does not open them they will sit in your outbox until you delete them.

slowair · Post by **slowair** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:48 am

That's very strange.
The people I sent messages to, would have been waiting for them.
Guess I'll have to email them instead.
Very strange.

Leel · Post by **Leel** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 9:56 am

For what it's worth, Mike, I have had similar "issue". On several occations.

Once, it made me miss a great sale on a whistle I REALLY wanted.

The seller was certainly checking their Inbox for replies to the sales post, so in that case, I MUST reject the "reader didn't read message", hypothesis.

Never have figured out why it happens.

LEE

slowair · Post by **slowair** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:56 am

I have to agreed Lee.
There was a message to Philo in the Outbox since August about buying a whistle from him. I always wondered why he never returned my PM. Figured he wasn't interested. The foolishness of assuming that computers never fail.
I think from now on, I'll always ask for a response via email.
Mike

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:34 am

Perhaps the recipients' inboxes were full?

avanutria · Post by **avanutria** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:24 pm

When my inbox is full it just deletes the oldest message to make room for the newest. I've known other people who have somehow managed to get more than 100% full on their inbox without things getting deleted, so the system is definitely not perfect...

Post by **Dale** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:48 pm

avanutria wrote:When my inbox is full it just deletes the oldest message to make room for the newest. I've known other people who have somehow managed to get more than 100% full on their inbox without things getting deleted, so the system is definitely not perfect...

What Beth says. My inbox is perpetually 100% full, so the oldest messages vanish.

PhilO · Post by **PhilO** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 7:32 pm

Whoa, Mike, I would never ignore a message from you! Did you e-mail me? I know we had some successful back and forth after the Gathering, this was after that? I'll PM you now. (I wonder if my notification didn't work, although I've been receiving PMs from others)

Best,

Philo