Dandello wrote on May 25
th, 2013 at 2:38pm:
I'm wondering if we need a 'catcher' that will turn off the PM recall if the single recipient has email PM notifications turned on. Something to think about.
If that can be done, that would be pretty cool.
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Dandello wrote on May 25
th, 2013 at 2:38pm:
I know from experience that trying to recall a PM that's gone to email just confuses (and annoys) the recipient.
I don't think that's ever occurred to me, so thanks for bringing it up. I've recalled PMs before, but thanks to your note about how a recall actually works, I won't do that again. Instead, if need be, I'll simply send a follow-up PM.
I began to wonder why a PM can be recalled, and yet, it can't be edited it afterward. But then, editing a PM after it's been sent to a recipient's email client could be even more confusing, and potentially more irritating, so I guess it's good that editing can't be done.
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On a related note regarding spam that get posted in a forum, and then gets subsequently deleted or moved to a staff-only area by an admin or moderator, with a new topic the following message takes its place (
with a respective identifier):
Quote:The information you are trying to access is not available to you. /home/yabbforum/data/forumdata/messages/1369467281.txt"
If the spam post is added to an existing topic as a reply, instead of a
System Information message, the clickable link in YaBB's
Board Notification takes you to the associated topic minus that moved or deleted spam post.
I think the way YaBB does this is fine. The only complaint I have about it is that the
Board Notification that appears makes it seem as if
you are the only one who can't access the information that is being accessed.
But this isn't really an issue since we admins can change that
Board Notification to a notice of our choice. I haven't actually done this in our forum yet, but I may soon change that notice to read as follows:
"The information you are trying to access may have been spam, and removed by a moderator, or it may have been deleted by its author. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please enjoy the rest of our forum, and thank you for participating."Edited: Done! Except that I added
"Reference:" after
"participating." since YaBB automates a reference of what's missing at the end of the
System Information message.
By the way, in our forum YaBB's automated reference only lists the text file versus a fuller listing as it's done in this forum. I prefer simply listing a shorter text file without listing our forum's otherwise hidden url. So in our forum that reference is simply,
"./Messages/1215648040.txt".
Sometimes I can be such a YaBB nerd!

Or as follows, maybe a shorter, and simpler notice would be better:
"Sorry, but the information you are trying to access is no longer available."Just thinking aloud again.