Idle curiosity re. blocking sender?

Yes, but where is she? Until she comes back no-one will know the result of the experiment! I should have known that it was unlikely that someone from HQ would have popped along and answered the question without jingl and I behaving like a couple of lab rats!

See, if they were keeping an eye on us like they're supposed to, none of this would have happened!

Another one bites the dust?

No! It was meant to be a pm. I got it wrong. Done it right now. Over to you p. Block me now! I'm ready!

Phew, it's ok, just spotted her on another thread.

Although I could ask what the hell she's doing there when she should be here.

I don't expect Fleming nipped out for a while in the middle of finding out about penicillin, and if Isaac Newton had got bored whilst sitting under that apple tree............................

And Alexander Graham Bell would have been left just going "hello, hello?" if whoever it was that was supposed to be on the other end had just buggered off.

In yer own time missis.

I'm here. Do it, do it, do it!

'ave you done it?! I've got two microwave meals to hot up you know!

I thought you'd already done that, phoenix!??

Well if she has, it has n't worked. I'm still getting through. (Although, obviously in madam's absence)

YES I have! Do keep up jingl

Now, YOU pm ME and we see what happens!

Have you done it yet?

Yes, I 'ave done it. It doesn''t work! Where did you get this daffy idea from anyway? (that you can block someone) yet another !!!

Well, as yet it hasn't appeared in my inbox!

It's not my daffy idea, in the inbox/pm thingy it does give you the option of blocking a sender, you have a look!

If you've blocked jingl then surely she won't appear in the inbox!

FFS

I despair!!

PS Just checked, and there is an option for un-blocking sender, so at least we won't have to disturb HQ from their cake eating to sort it out!

I definitely have you currently blocked, jingl so it would appear that the blocked person has no idea that they have actually been blocked.

I did wonder if it would be a bit like an email "bounce" when you get the address wrong and get a message saying that the message has not been delivered etc.

Yes, so those occasional pervy weirdos who've PMd GNetters in the past and have been blocked could still be sending ever more desperate PMs, not knowing they're never going to be read...

My heart bleeds for them.

Oh! So, even though it said "message sent" when I pm'd you, the messages didn't actually get through?!

Well I never!

I didn't get a message saying that you had blocked me.

Anyway! We seem to have sorted things out without recourse to "you-know-who". Which raises the question, do we really need them?

that might get the buggers answering

I did cross that out!

Fascinating! Pavlov must be spinning in his grave at the thought of opportunties missed

Now I know that if I send someone a pm and they've blocked me, I won't know they haven't got it, they won't know I sent it, and I know they don't know that I don't know they've blocked me..........(just going for a lie down!)