Problem with "New personal message" notifications

Kevin Solway · Post by **Kevin Solway** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:20 pm

Many people are receiving false "new personal message" notifications.

This is either because of a software fault, or someone hacking the system. More likely the latter.

I'm working on it.

If the emails are too much of a nuisance, go to your profile and turn off "Notify on new Private Message". That might fix it, but I haven't tested it.

If you do in fact have a new personal message, you will be informed in the link at the top of the forum.

Jamesh · Post by **Jamesh** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:46 pm

I got a similar Private Message email from http://www.toequest.com/forum/

and there was no such new message.

Our Berty hasn't been playing up I hope, cause I noticed this on that forum.

"Welcome to our newest member, Bert"

Dan Rowden · Post by **Dan Rowden** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:12 pm

Oh, is that all it was. For a minute there I thought someone actually wanted to talk to me! :(

That's a relief.

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 4:39 am

Dan Rowden wrote:Oh, is that all it was. For a minute there I thought someone actually wanted to talk to me! :(

That's a relief.

Dan, you actually DO have a new PM. :)

avonova · Post by **avonova** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:10 am

I'm very very disappointed. :(

Elizabeth Isabelle · Post by **Elizabeth Isabelle** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:33 am

Kevin,

Is it really a glitch? We've had a lot of advertisers posting, and I've noticed that as new advertisers arrive, their accounts are being banned off the member list. If an advertiser comes on and starts sending pms of ads to people, and the ad generates a notification email to our regular email account, and the person gets banned before the pm is recieved - what happens to the pm?

It seems to me that the pm stays in our outbox until the person retrieves it - so if the account is deleted, wouldn't everything in their outbox also be deleted, even though the notification email had already been sent?

Just a theory.

Eternal_Tom · Post by **Eternal_Tom** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:30 am

I was actually glad to recieve the message, it reminded me this place existed!

All hail strange internet phenomena

GENIUS FORUMS

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