Aphelion

Rob,

The PM system is giving me errors. I tried to send you a PM about it, but it wouldn't let me. I get "Net::SMTP fatal error: unable to create Net::SMTP object smtp.america.net. at (eval 5) line 3." I got the same error trying to send to 2 other people.

I've also had several people get errors (I don't know which error, sorry), so they think it didn't get through & then they send it again. But then I get the message over and over. I got 6 from one writer and 4 from another.

Hope this helps.

I'm looking into this.

That makes me chuckle.

"Hmm... the PM system is down... let's see if it will let me PM to tech support!"

Well, yeah. I agree it sounds funny, but just because PMing to one group didn't work doesn't mean that it won't work for all. There's plenty of PMs that I try to reply to that give an error, but if I pick that person from the members list and click to send them a PM, it will go through. Others will 'reply to' just fine. It doesn't make a lot of sense.

I also wanted Rob to know that I tried telling him about a problem privately first. I'm sure enough of my public grumbles keep me permanently on the $#!% list as it is. I do try to play well with others...

Nate

review your outgoing email virus checker in combination with any loaded spyware? ????

RT

Not sure if this was meant to be a joke or not.

The PM system doesn't use email. You can click on a member's name and then choose to send them a Private Message. It's kinda like email in that only the person on the other end sees it, but it's still just a message here in YABB. You use the same message interface as when you post. People send me stories that way for the challenges, and I frequently send rewrite requests or receipt acknowledgments back. Virus checkers never get near them, and they're just text.

Maybe it's my fault. I do use it the PM system here a lot, and I store the winning entries in it... As a matter of fact there's 11 current messages in it now without the stored ones. Perhaps I'm my own worst enemy. :-/

I have 116 PMs, 0 new in my Inbox (haven't deleted any since the system went live), so I don't think volume should be a problem. Then on the other hand, the Challenge entries are a lot longer than typical PMs, so ... Maybe you could try copy-and-pasting them into files on your computer and deleting some of the stored PMs?

RM :-/