Visitor Messaging

[amateur51]

You want ALL your own VMs deleted?

Can you see why VM was soooo handy now, ff & salymap?

[salymap]

You want ALL your own VMs deleted?

Sorry I thought you were getting rid of everybody's messages. Just the Christmas one will do then.saly.

[antongould]

Several months ago I proposed disabling Visitor Messaging from the entire forum but there were objections from those who were already making regular use of the facility. The (then) prime objector subsequently had their entire VMs deleted and opted to disable it from their account.

It does seem to provide a certain amount of post-posting concern so I'm asking again whether there is anyone who finds this facility useful? If not, I shall disable it (this does not automatically delete VMs from the database, but the messages are no longer visible and no new messages can be posted).

Please object NOW if you want VMs to continue.

did we reach a conclusion on this? - I get the feeling the view of the "body" is that they are disabled and deleted.

[french frank]

did we reach a conclusion on this? - I get the feeling the view of the "body" is that they are disabled and deleted.

Thank you for reminding me - I'd forgotten all about it.

Yes, I think objections have had long enough to be voiced. I propose to disable the facility which means all messages will disappear but they will remain in the database; otherwise they all have to be deleted individually, user by user (I think) - which would mean checking each account to see if there were any (in most cases there wouldn't be) and then deleting all those sent by that user. I will do that for any user who specifically asks me to delete theirs en masse (though I'm sure they've always been deletable singly).

They automatically go from the database when an account is deleted.

[antongould]

You are, as ever, all kindness - thank you.

[salymap]

And thank you FF from me. And what an improvement.