An Idea to Help Semi-Obsessive-Compulsive People Like Me Clean Out Their PM Boxes!

[The Man]

FF:WA has a feature that allows the conversion of selected messages, complete with important info like sender, sending timel, recipient, and vB and HTML codes, to a single text file. The extremely cool part of this feature is that you can do this with the entire contents of your Inbox at once, or the entire contents of your Sent Items at once, thus minimising the amount of agony needed to obsessively-compulsively catalogue every Private Message you ever receive or send on Eyes on Final Fantasy.

Would you be interested in implementing this at EoFF? If so, I'll get someone from FF:WA's staff, probably Tau, in contact with someone from EoFF's administrative staff. I don't think it should be a particularly difficult feature to implement, and I can imagine it doing some people a lot of good.

Just a thought.

Peace
Mand al'Thor

[Dr Unne]

It seems like a good idea. It seems like all that would be involved is some kind of database query. Maybe we could write our own script to do something like this. We, as in someone other than me, because I don't know SQL. Or someone else can talk to that FFWA guy. If another admin wants to do it, I'm in favor. It would get people to empty their PM boxes, which would save server space. Backing up PMs is tedious right now, I would agree. I have had to do so myself.

[The Man]

Okay, I'll PM Tau and ask him either to talk with one of the admins or to explain in a response how the feature was implemented. I'm kinda thinking about setting my own board up eventually anyway when I have time, and I'd like to have the same feature myself, so the PM response might make more sense since it wouldn't require two explanations, but I don't know crap about the technical side of running vBulletin boards yet, so maybe it would make more sense for whoever conducts the chat to send the log to me.

Whatever additional information I get will be passed on.

Peace
Mand al'Thor

[Loony BoB]

Very good proposal. *nods*

[The Man]

Thanks, BoB.

Tau got my PM on FF:WA, so I'm hoping he'll contact an administrator on EoFF soon. We'll see what happens.

Peace
Mand al'Thor

[Nait]

Holy Mother of Väinämöinen, this is cause for celebration...


May I present you, ladies and gentlemen, the new heir of Impossible Things That Happen Anyway...

The Proposal The Man Made In The Feedback Forum Which Wasn't Shot Down By The Moderators Immediately Because It Was Such A Good Proposal The Third! *corks the champagne* Whoo! Lookit go! *clirr*

[The Man]

Rawr.

Peace
Mand al'Thor

[Yamaneko]

Good. Now I might delete some of my PM's that have been their since I've joined.

Good work.

[MecaKane]

Yah, but those wern't all that good, or helpfull. Excpt for the spoiler one. << >>

[Big Ogre Umaro]

Tau's a fine bloke.

[Del Murder]

You people actually have 300 pms worth saving? 300 pms that you will actually read again?

Query: Do you folks go around with tape recorders recording every conversation you have with your friends every day? Do ya?

That aside, sounds like a good idea.

[Yamaneko]

I don't, but I know The Man has, probably most of the Cid's Knights and a lot of the members do.

Plus by doing this, this will free space on the server. Much needed space.

I heard they do that in college.

[Loony BoB]

*raises hand* I have had over that many PM's worth saving.

[Killy]

You should know that since he receives so many PMs, keeping some of them could be usefull, but since theres so many, saving them all is easier. Anyway, if this is implented, I will be really happy.

[The Man]

Originally posted by Del Murder
You people actually have 300 pms worth saving? 300 pms that you will actually read again?

More like 450. Some of them are already saved on my computer.

Originally posted by Yamaneko
I don't, but I know The Man has, probably most of the Cid's Knights and a lot of the members do.

I'm amused at being mentioned before the Cid's Knights, for some reason.

And yeah, it's a lot easier to do "select all messages - download" and save the result to your hard drive than it is to right-click each individual link, catalogue each message by user and sending date and subject and GRAAAAAH *pulls hair out*

Peace
Mand al'Thor