PM assistance

[Pford75]

Wonder if any other members have been having the same problem?

I have some outgoing PM's sitting in my outbox which refuse to go. They aren't appearing in 'sent' and my box is not full....any ideas?

 

[Gareth Hughes]

Wonder if any other members have been having the same problem?

I have some outgoing PM's sitting in my outbox which refuse to go. They aren't appearing in 'sent' and my box is not full....any ideas?

I've had this in the past - I think they stay in the outbox until they've been received and opened at the "other end", at which point they move to the "sent" box. But I'm not an expert :wink:

 

[jocelyn plummer]

I have had that problem too, but not recently.

 

[Cloudscape]

Same answer as Gareth. I've had a PM sitting in my Outbox for months. It means that it hasn't been opened and read by the recipient.

 

[FamilyWiggs]

I opened this thread thinking Gordon Brown had been of some assistance to a Board member in some aspect of period property - maybe PFord's wall saga with the insurers?

And then I read it and realised this useless government is no help to anyone.... ooh did I get a bit political there? (Sorry - just looking forward to next May at the latest!)

 

[Moo]

just looking forward to next May at the latest!)

Aren't we all!

x

 

[Penners]

As others have suggested, PM's stay in your Outbox until they're "collected" by the recipients.

So your best plan is to email them to tell them that there's a PM for them.

Then phone them to tell them to look at their email.

If you find that you have to leave a message on their answering machine, best pop round to tell them about the message.

If they're not at home, just PM them.

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Penners - very disappointed in this carbon-footprint aware age to see there is no role for carrier pigeons or small boys on bikes, in your communications strategy.

 

[MdB]

... to see there is no role for carrier pigeons ...

Using the internet to transmit data is sooo last year.

http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_6209735
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html

 

[FamilyWiggs]

That's so funny! Go winston...

 

[Penners]

Penners - very disappointed in this carbon-footprint aware age to see there is no role for carrier pigeons or small boys on bikes, in your communications strategy.

Given that homing pigeons have an annoying habit of only returning home, your carrier pigeon strategem assumes that all prospective message recipients own a pigeon. We therefore need urgently to enlarge our national pigeon footprint.

As for small boys on bikes, I was one of those once. I am therefore well aware of the risk of any message being delayed/diverted via the sweet shop, the football field or the spyhole in the girl guides' changing rooms.

 

[JoceAndChris]

:lol:

Given that homing pigeons have an annoying habit of only returning home, your carrier pigeon strategem assumes that all prospective message recipients own a pigeon. We therefore need urgently to enlarge our national pigeon footprint.

When I was learning to drive, my driving instructor would come and and pick me up and release his pigeons here at the same time. But they knew a good thing when they saw it, and chose Beacon Cottage over home. I now have a garden full of racing pigeons, who seem to have married wood pigeons, and no faith in the fidelity of these birds!

 

[Penners]

my driving instructor would come and and pick me up

Hussy...

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Given that homing pigeons have an annoying habit of only returning home, your carrier pigeon strategem assumes that all prospective message recipients own a pigeon.

So basically what you're saying is that pigeons are very good for sending delayed messages to yourself (like "don't forget to feed the cat when you come home", but pretty hopeless for sending messages to other people (because they'll only return home)...?

Someone really should tell those South African chaps who are using pigeons to send memory cards between offices because it is faster than sending large files over the South African t'internet!

 

[Penners]

So basically what you're saying is that pigeons are very good for sending delayed messages to yourself (like "don't forget to feed the cat when you come home", but pretty hopeless for sending messages to other people (because they'll only return home)...?

Just so.

However, given that a homing pigeon - by definition - needs to be taken somewhere else in order to return home, by the time you've put the pigeon in the car, driven to Ashby de la Zouche (or wherever), written yourself a note and attached it to the pigeon, released said bird, then driven home again, I fear the cat may have starved to death.

 

[Gareth Hughes]

The arrival of the pigeon may, of course, be just what the cat needs to prevent starvation, thus rendering the message unneccessary.

 

[JoceAndChris]

Ah, Mr Hughes, if you had spent more time with cats and less on crumbly old buildings you would know that most self-respecting cats wouldn't dream of touching game that hadn't hung for the requisite period. If their butler had absented himself at a hungry moment they would merely trot down to Browns and demand wood-roasted turbot tranche with capers, say, or steamed stuffed fillet of gilt-head seabream.

 

[Penners]

The arrival of the pigeon may, of course, be just what the cat needs to prevent starvation, thus rendering the message unneccessary.

You see, folks, that's the kind of incisive problem-solving that is missing in so much of local government, nowadays.

 

[Penners]

demand wood-roasted turbot tranche with capers, say, or steamed stuffed fillet of gilt-head seabream.

It strikes me that, for someone who professes to be doing up an old house, you're spending altogether too much time with the Heston Blumenthal chemistry set.

 

[JoceAndChris]

Dearest Heston; I love him.

But I really am working my fingers to the bone lately. Just you wait, anyday soon and you will be treated to an exclusive glimpse of my new boudoir - I bet you can hardly contain your excitement! Resplendent in shrimp pink with skylight and tallow accents, twinkling crystal, ruffled silk and polished mahogany, and yet so snug and cottagey with worm eaten boards and warming pans, you really never! It's toothrilling!