Usually I am not toooooo bad with technical stuff.  But for the life of me I can't figure out how to return a PM.  I logged on and my pop-up blocker stopped the PM box. Then I clicked the link from the message that was sent to me and I get the message.

Sorry, you can't read your personal messages.

I have gone to the user id and clicked the name but no options for PM shows?   

So today the message came up again, made sure the pop up blocker was off.  The window opened and same message.  ERROR Sorry, you can't read your personal messages. Me or the system?

yoo hoo webmistress 

Hi all,
Actually I need to ask WM for specifics- PM's are being removed for the reasons OMC mentioned, but I do not know the status of that project

My pop-up blocker never prevented me from using the PM function.  However, I can't PM anyone tonight, and I had a question for David.  PM is not an option under anyone's name!

Have the PM`s been shut down ? I notice the facility doesn`t seem to be available any longer.
Lynne

Yes, PMs have been shut off. We were having quite a few problems with them not the least of which is the spam bots and unsavory types waltzing in and pm-ing certain members. There are forums still running pms but other forums have shut down the function due to similar issues. I also had to add a bunch of new security patches for this reason.

Then there is a problem of the pop up windows with some members.

I was often accused of reading PMs because the system would randomly reference my email since I set up the forum. I occasionally got PMs sent directly to me that people intended to send to others and that also made people think I was acting as a PM watchdog. It was embarrassing to me to get PMs not intended for me. I did troubleshooting but people could not recreate the event that resulted in my getting a random PM every once in a while so I could not resolve it. I also could not remove my email since it was used to set up the system without an act of congress and the prospect of losing and having to reinstall data.

David could not track customer questions either and there is no mod that allows for that function. He needs the email "string" to keep up with various customer questions.

So as you can see, for a lot of reasons, we simply had to shut it off and put those resources elsewhere such as setting up the shopping cart. I was spending far too long every day with the PM system.
Sorry, I know you guys liked it but it had become a giant tumor for me.

Bummer-I understand about having to close it, but I had some info in my PM's that I needed!

Shiba- Do you know who sent the PM?

Um, I deleted the pms to stop the pop up message pop up from happening. That is a good idea, though. Sorry I did not think of it before.

Never mind!  It is gone!!

Um, actually it is still happening.  PLEASE make it stop! 

Actually not a big deal, but it is kind of annoying.

I made some changes. Let me know if you are still getting this error.

Thank goodness. And thank you for letting me know.