Retrieving PM's

Mine are the same - only go back to early November. I'm guessing that it's an automatic space-saving exercise?

Prob, kept for a certain period of time, not something I am used to I can see all my PM's on well.. that place I am always interested in learning ! But I find it strange that text can disappear ? One minute I am reading, next pftttttt it's gone but before and after posts were there. That's only one situation...

http://able2know.org/topic/130130-1#post-3593090

Thanks Region.. very much appreciate it But the missing PM's well would have been 4 at the most so couldn't have reached 1000. Weird.

i think it means # of replies, not # of PM's in your inbox?

so if you have 100 PM's that each have 10 replies back and forth, that would hit the limit...

OMG... Dutchy alone has 390 Not sure Region.. I PM certainly with a few, some very few lovely and personal.. I can go back to Nov 13 on everyone, loads of messages and few.

So maybe? 1000 means who ever reached 1000 got deleted? But others I can still read. As in today's date, yesterdays, last week.

The mind is a wonderful thing when we are curious and really need to know the answer.. That or I am slightly ODD. Or OCD .

Truly appreciate your help. You know when something bugs you?

Thanks Also .. I've written some PM's and next thing you know when I look up what I was pointing out, it's gone. This is general Google searches. On WH even as Admin, I can't read PM's of people here, hoping this is the same here.

This has such a family atmosphere and a lot of wisdom at 50 it makes me smile to be amongst this... Where I come from they are 18-25 , maybe 30 mainly... And I love that, but I need and love it here too...

yeah. it's a long-standing peeve.

if you're at the limit, if you have pm's from people you don't want pm's from - they still bump out meaningful pm's.

I sure wish there was a way to clear out the inboxes of stuff we don't want.

Agreed. But in the meantime, I'm learning to copy and paste pms that are dear to me - into my mac iWorks pages. If I save a bunch from one person in a row, I do some editing since I don't care about seeing the usernames repeatedly or the time of day, etc. I don't do this with many, but there are some oldies I wish I had back as I suppose most of us do.

Same feeling here. I have some from dearly departed members I cherish. Saving them now (if I can)

Yes. It would be nice if we had the ability to delete PMs ourselves. I've got a handful from one time posters about follow up grammar questions. I do not cherish them.

Well I guess, I reminded some people to start saving theirs via this thread

Ok... thanks heaps.

What about the privacy issue you brought up earlier? Does anyone else apart from the writer/sender of PMs read them?

I have always assumed that PM stood for Personal (not private) Messages.

I still have quite a few that go back three years, I guess I better start reading some of them but I haven't had the time.

Far as I know, the mods don't read pms.

I take it that if you get some horrible pm you can quote it to them and they'd look at that quote, but I'm not sure on that.

People send each other copies of pms, extremely tacky. I don't know how often that happens, but it does.

I can't on WH but as that's the only Forum I've ever been Admin/Mod on, I wasn't sure about other Forums. I think it's a good thing as Roger stated PM means Personal.. PM also to me means Private.. I thinks that's a privileged that is deserved... And it makes a place. That's good to know Osso...

Took a look at my PMs...the oldest is from 2004.WOW 10 years!

There's one from Robert Gentel: That's gotta be worth a bit.

Then there's the sad ones...Cav Fancier, Joanne Dorell...passed on.

The disappeared ones: Child Of The Light, was supposed to send me a tape he made.

J-B was my first Chinese student on A2K

Kicky!

Noddy told me to "Hold my Dominion"

Sigh...I'm not copying or saving these...when it's time for them to disappear I'll let them go.