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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Till From Kenig

Do you delete old messages?

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Just wondering: are you deleting old messages from your PM boxes on UG? I have idea to let you search in your PM boxes and change max number of messages you can store up to 1000. You'll be able to store all your conversations and quickly find what that guy was talking about that Line 6 amplifier.

I still have to discuss that with zappp, but I find this quite interesting and relatively easy to implement.

That's why I need to know more how do you use your pm at th moment. Do you store your conversations? Do you keep only important letters or just delete everything? How often you have to search in your pm's for a certain letter?

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ZeGuitarist wrote on Feb 28th, 2009 7:17pm

A good idea... another suggestion is an "saved messages" folder, where you can move the PMs you want to keep. Then, you can just select all the messages in your inbox and delete them, because you hadthe messages you wanted to keep in another folder already!

Just a thought...

SomeoneYouKnew wrote on Feb 28th, 2009 7:17pm

i deleted all messages (except for about 20) about a month ago. now i have over 400.

more message space and easier search sounds good to me.

slightly related topic:
UG Instant Message system.
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/showthread.ph p?t=1071523
sounds like it would require lots of resources, but the product would be very attractive.

Till From Kenigm wrote on Feb 28th, 2009 7:21pm

SomeoneYouKnew wrote on Feb 28th, 2009 at 9:17pm :

i deleted all messages (except for about 20) about a month ago. now i have over 400.

more message space and easier search sounds good to me.

slightly related topic:
UG Instant Message system.
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/showthread.ph p?t=1071523
sounds like it would require lots of resources, but the product would be very attractive.

I'm reading suggestion threads regularry. But actualy I have no idea what will that look like

aig91 wrote on Feb 28th, 2009 8:10pm

I save a lot of messages, but still delete some to try to conserve space in my inbox. In my opinion, I think this would useful.

emad wrote on Feb 28th, 2009 8:24pm

One beer if you just implement that.

ZeGuitarist wrote on Feb 28th, 2009 8:35pm

Hell, I'll send one over from Belgium

mikko 9119 wrote on Feb 28th, 2009 10:12pm

^no. beer from Belgium sucks. I'll send yousome from Minnesota

and I'm only 17

mikko 9119 wrote on Feb 28th, 2009 10:13pm

I agree with Jan on this. this is a very good idea to you both.

even though I havent deleted any messages since I joined =/

Till From Kenigm wrote on Mar 1st, 2009 1:56am

Stop arguing! Send me all your beer

jasonggabbott wrote on Mar 1st, 2009 5:17am

YES! More message space for sure. It doesn't take up much room (it is only words).
I like to save everything, I am a pack rat. Some way to search through it would be cool too, a keyword search maybe. The idea for a separate folder to put stuff is
great also.

ZeGuitarist wrote on Mar 2nd, 2009 11:36am

mikko 9119 wrote on Feb 28th, 2009 at 11:12pm :

beer from Belgium sucks.

Lol.

Wat.

Colohue wrote on Mar 2nd, 2009 4:33pm

Let's see.

I often have to go through my messages and delete old ones. I prefer to keep messages from my friends, or those which I class as important. I receive a fair chunk of mail from the management concerning my articles and, unfortunately, a lot of these have to be deleted to make room for more messages.

There are some messages I often come back to. When using a different PC I check back for my e-mail client password. Also, when doing HTML edits on my work I review a message PiCSeL sent me concerning HTML, that is also in my inbox.

Colohue wrote on Mar 2nd, 2009 4:34pm

I also share a lot of mail with friends. Some of these messages are rather important to me. Some make me smile all of the time, which I find very soothing I like keeping hold of these, but as I run out of room I'm planning to move them to my e-mail.

Some users receive a lot of mail, some do not. Those that do often lose a lot of what they're looking for, so I think being able to search your mail for certain words and phrases would be very beneficial. Having a saved messages folder would also be good, though it would have to take room away from the actual inbox. Perhaps users could set the ratio themselves. Perhaps have 800 messages in the inbox and 200 in saved messages, I don't know.

I'll keep an eye and see how things develop. I wrote enough to cover two messages already after all. :P

ZeGuitarist wrote on Mar 2nd, 2009 5:24pm

I'm still for the Saved Messages folder, and I don't think it would be very difficult to implement... what do you say, Till?

stringsquealer wrote on Mar 2nd, 2009 10:08pm

I save all of my messages, except for one that I got that was just from someone who registered to advertise a dating website.

mikko 9119 wrote on Mar 5th, 2009 1:37pm

ZeGuitarist wrote on Mar 2nd, 2009 at 5:36am :

mikko 9119 wrote on Feb 28th, 2009 at 11:12pm :

beer from Belgium sucks.
Lol.

Wat.
i was obviously lying, sonny :

SomeoneYouKnew wrote on Mar 6th, 2009 4:30am

Till From Kenig wrote on Feb 28th, 2009 at 8:56pm :

Stop arguing! Send me all your beer

This man knows how to settle arguments and solve problems!

Carmel wrote on Mar 6th, 2009 1:04pm

I really need a bigger inbox

Also, why is this blog written in the future? I'm pretty sure March 28th is still a good 3 weeks away....

sbikram wrote on Mar 11th, 2009 2:43pm

actually i dont get any.. messages..
i've got only about umm 3 messages in my UG life..
that sucks..

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