QUESTION

TR,

To answer your question, No, ownership is not erasing PMs, and in fact cannot view a PM thread - does not even know it exists. The only member who can delete the PM thread is the person who started it.

Why would the sender erase it after he sent it and asked for a response

What about the posts?

TR,

I for one delete many PM's after I get done talking to the Person on that subject matter.

Just a little bit of House cleaning maybe?

TR, can't speak for this situation but in our case, we have had a "virus" and our system is sending some stuff to a virus vault. So, one message board I belong to won't let me to my pms from that site. I still get the pms via email to let me read and know that they are there. Our site administrator is looking into it and believes it is happening because of a feature called "automatic healing." Again, I don't know if this is the case with you or not.

TR,
I had a PM the other day and had the same problem. I read the PM via my email and when I went to the hsbbw link to respond, it said I didn't have access to that area. I generated a "new" PM, fired it off to the sender.
Fungo
PS: Too high tech for me. I'm still trying to figure out how that little mouse makes that little arrow move all over the screen.

Tr,
Just fire another PM to me...no problem.

I have occasionally had someone send a PM to me, then delete it before I had a chance to respond, perhaps because they changed their mind. However, if this seems to be happening repeatedly, it's possible there could be a server problem I need to check into. If anyone observes this happening in the next week or so, please ask the other member whether they deleted the PM. If they did not delete it, let me know at least the date that this happened and if we get a few reports like that, I will ask tech support if they know anything about this.

Julie,
I got an pm through email the other day and went to respond but couldnot find it in private messaging.
So I as Fungo, "fired off a new one" and them later found the original.

I have been getting PMs via e-mail and then go to new PMs to reply. If I replied to the e-mail it went to the site and not to the sender. I assume that is hoe it should work ????

I do as Doc said and delete old PMs or PMs where I communicate with someone regularly because I feel they just take up space. Just as I clean out old emails.

I do have a question for you Julie and I'll email you - I need to change my account email address and don't know how to do it. Does anyone else?

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Originally posted by BobbleheadDoll:
I have been getting PMs via e-mail and then go to new PMs to reply. If I replied to the e-mail it went to the site and not to the sender. I assume that is hoe it should work ????

Yep ... that way, if the sender wants to keep their EMail address confidential they can. Sounds like it's working correctly.

I don't like to make mine public ... I get very little spam and want to keep it that way.

Laf - go to profile and edit, there is a box there to check that will allow you to change your email.

tdf - thanks, it won't work for me. I think it goes back to when Bob did a major housecleaning and I had to reenter my info - for some reason it thinks someone else (me) already has the email I want to use. I'll have to email Julie and see what I can do.