Deleted PMs - This is important

Chewbacca Do you get a little textbox with some gobbledegook in it when you try to post?

Missadventure Not a formal group, just several recipients at once (with commas between them in the "To" box)

I'm still having problems with pms. I've just received one from jalima and was able to read it but it won't let me reply. No matter how many times I hit send, the message doesn't go.

GNHQ please tel me what's going on and how can it be sorted out. Please?

I don't understand 'in a group'.
What group?

Perhaps the techy people are in the middle of changing stuff? That can cause chaos on a website.

PS

Rachell I never pm to groups of posters always to the individual.

Right.

I have just sent a message to Jalima telling her I was going to 'bin' one her pm's stating the date/time/message.

According to GNHQ this action should show the message 'This message has been removed at user request' because if one or both parties delete a pm that's what happens.

Nope!

The 'binned' message simply dropped out of the PM list, As Usually happens.

I am beyond confused.

Elegran how do you think my pms were deleted MID conversation between myself and another poster who is still very much posting and NEITHER of us asked for any deletions
What can be the explanation for that?

Yes Elegran that’s what I think too, it’s just an automated service.

Perhaps the gremlins can wind the clock back a month.

I feel a bit sad about this as I had kept a number of very kind and thoughtful PMs sent to me and liked to flick through them occasionally. Can't now

I could understand messages dropping off the bottom without trace , but messages in the middle of the list , both out and replies , with the odd note is unsettling
ps odd as in strange

Sorry to have confused you Jalima Elegran to the rescue!

Thanks Elegran

Yes, I had to add the 1108 when I re-registered after my email got hacked!

Glad to be of service, POGS I asked because that is the kind of thing I have done myself.

I don't believe that it is anything sinister, Day6

I suspect that when that must-give-permission-for-every- last-thing-online stuff was all the go, back in ?November?, Gransnet techy department added a bit to the deleting-pms command, so that all trace of a deleted pm would vanish, in the sender's outbox and the receiver's inbox, whether it was the sender or the receiver who deleted it.

However, it may have been rather more efficient than they intended, and a pm sent to several people would vanish from ALL of them if one of them deleted. Most of us don't look at past pms very often, so no-one would notice for a while.

I really don't think anyone reads our pms. It is probably an automatic thing, working when someone clicks on "delete", not operated by a human being. We get a bit sensitive to privacy concerns in the current online climate. Anyhow, they will all be hopping about like blue-arsed flies finding out what is causing it and (we hope) putting it right.

Elegran Thu 21-Feb-19 15:44:25.

POGS Did you add the 1108 to Jalima1108 ? Just asking.
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Bugger

Sorry to have confused you Jalima Elegran to the rescue!

Who is doing the deleting? Are our private messages floating around in the ether/readily available for anyone at GN HQ to read? Message boxes have been accessed by people other than the senders or recipients. Surely the messages I send to people cannot be deleted by anyone but me?

Have we been hacked?

Have we had answers?

I am so confused

I have some deleted which weren't deleted by the sender!

I got error 502 the first time I tried, but not the second time.

POGS Did you add the 1108 to Jalima1108 ? Just asking.

Have just tested a "New message" to you Jalima

Hurray - I received one from you, POGS, timed at 14:35:51

Jalima

Tried twice to send you a ' new message' and I get the same.

Could any poster try to send Jalima a message using the ' New Message' box as I am very confused.