B3Burner
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"Send email" vs. "Send a PM": Which is better?
I have never gotten a PM, and I see they only have a capacity of 5 in the inbox, so what's the advantage to receiving a message on your PM verses your email, which can hold hundreds of messages in the inbox?
How do I know which is better, and if I'm sending a non-forum message to someone I've never sent to before, how do I know which one they prefer to receive it on?
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29/11/2003, 4:10
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Niko Vidgren
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Re: "Send email" vs. "Send a PM": Which is better?
If you "send e-mail", the PM just goes to the receivers e-mail, and if you "send a PM", it goes to the inbox (which holds 5 PM's) and the receiver gets a note about this to his/hers e-mail. So there's not much difference. I think e-mail option is better, PM's are just clumsy and inbox can only hold 5 of them.
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29/11/2003, 9:34
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Milan Fahrnholz
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Re: "Send email" vs. "Send a PM": Which is better?
You can also unsubscribe from getting noticed about inbox messeages, so then there´s a difference.
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29/11/2003, 11:03
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Space Trucker
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Re: "Send email" vs. "Send a PM": Which is better?
Does anyone actually send PMs or Emails anyway? 
If so why have i never got any? 
Guess I'm just not popular enough 
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1/12/2003, 1:03
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Firlefanz
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Re: "Send email" vs. "Send a PM": Which is better?
Yes, I do. For stuff that is off-Forum, personal or admin. Or if a conversation is better continued in private.
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Milan Fahrnholz
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Re: "Send email" vs. "Send a PM": Which is better?
Of, course. Regulary!
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1/12/2003, 17:02
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B3Burner
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Re: "Send email" vs. "Send a PM": Which is better?
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Space Trucker wrote:
Does anyone actually send PMs or Emails anyway?
If so why have i never got any?
Guess I'm just not popular enough
Space Trucker,
It has nothing to do with not being liked. I believe everyone likes everyone here. Everyone in their own unique way has something special to bring to the "Deep Purple picnic".
I can't speak for others, but for me, I'm intimidated to send someone a personal message, unless I feel it's important or warranted. That thing at the top that says "abuse of this feature will result in immediate termination of your membership", scares the !@#$ out of me! I don't want anyone to think I'm harrassing them. Only people whom I've gotten to know bantering back and forth on the boards do I feel appropriate sending them private stuff.
Of course as I become more comfortable with the forum as a whole, don't be surprised if I have more to say to members in a PM. I'm just a little shy and conservative, and it takes me awhile to feel at ease approaching people.
However, the opposite could be true, where a topic becomes so individualized between two people, that to talk about it infront of 300 people, could be inappropriate as well, so I guess it just depends on the circumstances.
If it makes you feel any better, I'll send you a PM, okay?
Last edited by B3Burner, 3/12/2003, 3:21
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3/12/2003, 2:37
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Space Trucker
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Re: "Send email" vs. "Send a PM": Which is better?
I was only joking...
Just i have never had the need to send a PM, that's all.
Of cause compared to some I'm not online all that often.
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3/12/2003, 3:14
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B3Burner
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Re: "Send email" vs. "Send a PM": Which is better?
quote:
Space Trucker wrote:
I was only joking...
Of course, and wouldn't you know it? I'm so gullable as to take you literally.
But did you get my PM?
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3/12/2003, 3:19
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Space Trucker
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Re: "Send email" vs. "Send a PM": Which is better?
Yeah...
Woo Hoo. Now I know what a PM looks like... life just gets better.
Thanks B3B. You make me feel so much better.  
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3/12/2003, 3:22
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