Sending PMs

Note: PM's mean personal messages. Anyone found posting a PM on the forum will have it removed. Anyone persistantly posting PMs on the board will be issued a warning.

Note: There is no 'log' of PM's seen by mods or administrators, therefore they cannot be read by anyone else other than the sender and the recipient, unless they are forwarded or copied to other people.

Note: Advertising in PM's is forbidden. If you receive such a PM, please notify a member of staff.



Find the person you wish to send a message to. Click on their name and click on 'send personal message' in the 'communicate' part of their profile
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find one of their posts and click on 'PM' underneath their avatar.

Alternately, you can click on 'My Controls', 'compose new message' and type the recipients name into the repipient box.

Whatever you do, you will eventually see a posting box with a box with the recipients name above it. Normal members cannot send carbon copies to other members at the same time.
You must enter a message title, otherwise the PM will not send.

If you wish to save a copy of the PM, check the 'Add a copy of this message' box.
If you wish to check when someone has read your PM, check the 'Track this message?' box.

When you receive a PM, you will be notified in two ways.
1 The link at the top right saying "0 new messages" will have a number instead of a zero
2 You will receive a kind of pop up which will appear once at the top of the page.

If you do not wish to receive PM's, you can disable it altogether by going to 'My controls, Options, Board settings'

If you do not wish to receive PM's from certain people, go to 'My controls, Messenger, PM Buddies/Block list'. Input the members name and select 'no'


Are you having trouble sending a PM to someone? See here. However if you have more than 5 posts, then the person you are trying to send to probably as a full inbox. Feel free to post on the board asking them to clear it.


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The Messenger section of your My Controls panel

On the left hand side, you will see a section titled Messenger
Compose new personal message - This brings you the posting box to create a PM. You will have to enter the recipients name in the box, as detailed above.
Inbox - This is the folder where your Personal Messages (PM's) are received.
Sent items - If you click the box to save a copy of a PM when sending it, it can be found in this folder.
Addresses - Here you can add any useful addresses.
Important - Here you can save any important PMs
Saved / Unsent PM's - If you create a PM but do not send it, you can click 'Save (Send later)' and it will be moved to this folder

You can move any message from folder to folder by clicking the tick box beside it, scroll down to the bottom of the page and select the folder you wish to move to in the drop down menu, then clicking on 'move to'

You can delete any messages by clicking the tick box beside it and clicking on 'delete' at the bottom of the page.
Edit Storage Folders - Here you can create/remove personal custom folders.
By default you will have Inbox and Sent Items. You can create more if you wish.
PM Buddies/Block List - for adding members to your address book and choosing which members, you do not want to allow to PM you.
Archive Messages - The archived messages will be compiled into a single file and emailed to your address as an attachment of your choice.
Simply select the folder you want to archive and choose the options for archiving you want.
You will be sent an e-mail with an attachment of the messages you have archived, in HTML format or importable ms excel datafile.
Message Tracker - For tracking PM's
If you selected Track this Message when you composed the message, you can see if the member has read the message. You can also choose to stop tracking the message.
There is also the ability to see unread messages to which you can also delete it before the member has even read it.