Do you guys ever go back and read your old PMs?

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Most of mine are exchanges with Doug about neckplates.  A few are shootin' the s___ sessions with members, and a small few are clarification exchanges from heated threads.

 

[Cagey]

Yes. It's a habit I developed long ago, when storage space cost a lot of money. Never outgrew it, even when it's somebody else's storage space. I'm pretty ruthless about deleting things, or not saving them in the first place. Hurts me sometimes, but not often enough to change the behavior. For instance, I got my Gmail account back before even the beta was publicly announced, and I still have over 11 gigs of free space on it. That's been what, 8-9 years now?

 

[JCizzle]

Most of mine are with Cagey, asking very basic questions.  :sad:

 

[line6man]

I don't PM very often on this forum. I've only got like 225 messages in my inbox, dating back to when I joined.

I get PMs twice a week on TalkBass from people that need help wiring a bass, so I have to archive my messages and delete them every so often, because you can only have 500 messages at a time. I'm not sure how many I have in total, but they are all saved as .txt files for future reference.

There is no real reason to refer back to old PMs unless you are looking for information about something you've previously discussed.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

With no ill intent, this is how I picture Cagey.

 

[-CB-]

no, I have a life

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Not me.

 

[Cagey]

There is no Cagey! Only Zuul!​

 

[DangerousR6]

There is no Cagey! Only Zuul!​

That's awesomely funny, i just watched GB and GBII the other night... :headbang1:

 

[DangerousR6]

I've got like 200 pages of PM's, but I do on occasion need to dig up old info, so it's all still there... :laughing7:

 

[Cagey]

Damn! That's a lotta PMs. Whaddaya gonna do if Warmoth's server goes tits-up? Or, if they one day realize they're eating up gigabytes of storage for no good reason, and start limiting it the way most forums do? You're so far in the hole, it'd take days to filter through it all and stash the email and home addresses, real names, etc. of everybody you deal with.

You might want to do something about that. Lotta valuable information there.

 

[DangerousR6]

Damn! That's a lotta PMs. Whaddaya gonna do if Warmoth's server goes tits-up? Or, if they one day realize they're eating up gigabytes of storage for no good reason, and start limiting it the way most forums do? You're so far in the hole, it'd take days to filter through it all and stash the email and home addresses, real names, etc. of everybody you deal with.

You might want to do something about that. Lotta valuable information there.

Yes, I know. Ain't figured out a way to save them somewhere else... :icon_scratch:

 

[Cagey]

No easy way I can see. This forum software doesn't allow you to export your mail, so you're reduced to transcribing it if you want to move it. Or, you could row through it taking screen shots, but you lose a lot of information and organization that way. In order to make it useful, you'd still have to transcribe it.

I would guess that 97% or better of the information is expendable. Nobody is going to sue you over a neckplate gone bad, if such a thing were even possible, so there's no real need to keep a paper trail of every communication. All you really want is the contact data. Screen names equated to real names, email addresses, and shipping addresses. Open your contacts database/address book, and just start rowing through messages and copying down the pertinent stuff. Toss it as you go, page by page. Once that's done, export your contacts/address book list to a CSV file and email it to yourself.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Doug, my neckplate just went bad.  I'll have my attorneys PM you.

 

[DangerousR6]

No easy way I can see. This forum software doesn't allow you to export your mail, so you're reduced to transcribing it if you want to move it. Or, you could row through it taking screen shots, but you lose a lot of information and organization that way. In order to make it useful, you'd still have to transcribe it.

I would guess that 97% or better of the information is expendable. Nobody is going to sue you over a neckplate gone bad, if such a thing were even possible, so there's no real need to keep a paper trail of every communication. All you really want is the contact data. Screen names equated to real names, email addresses, and shipping addresses. Open your contacts database/address book, and just start rowing through messages and copying down the pertinent stuff. Toss it as you go, page by page. Once that's done, export your contacts/address book list to a CSV file and email it to yourself.

Yes, most info is expendable. Like you said most pertinent info is just screen names, real names and email addy's and such. Might just make a separate address book in my email with all the W info.. :icon_thumright:

 

[DangerousR6]

Doug, my neckplate just went bad.  I'll have my attorneys PM you.

I'm sending you a new one right now, don't pay any attention to the letters C4... :icon_biggrin:

 

[SustainerPlayer]

"Don't PM me. I'll PM you"!