I'm not quite sure where to post this, but I have a suggestion.

I've been conducting quite a few conversations lately through private messages, and I noticed that one can't review messages one has sent to someone else. This makes it difficult to reference details one has previously written. Just a minor suggestion, but would it be possible to make sent private messages reviewable?

no one here has any realy control over the board.

jackie has very, very limited 'authority'

Anu provided the server space, but rarely reads or post anything here.. and he is the one you need to contact.

since you should n't be filling up his server with copies of your mail, why not just compose in another program (save) and the copy and PM here.

in the past we have had 'fanatic' who saved every word others posted, but freely edited their posts..

so the whole idea of having a file/record with all my emails is turn off!

(but others will offer their own opinions, and if you really care, send Anu an email.. who knows he might just have forget to turn the feature on!)

I've discovered (over the years) that two things are prevelant: My inability to remember PM's as they were written and my computer's inablilaty to remember (with the "back" button)... which might be the fault of either "keyboard/monitor interface error" or "the gremlins ate my homework error"... but, either (pronounced eye-ther) way, I *almost always select/copy my PM's as to not have to retype... unless, of course, I'm improvising, and then a combination of chaos and kharma must override a sense of decency.

I don't know that Anu even has a function here whereby he could enable us to automatically save our PMs sent.

However, if I send a message that I want to keep for its high literary value (ahem), I copy it before sending and after sending it to whomever, I send it to Wordwind.

copy it before sending and after sending it to whomever, I send it to Wordwind.

My inbox here is so full I rarely use it any more, but I do as Wordwind does: if it's important I send it to myself as well. As Helen of Troy suggested, there may be a 'save' feature in the software that Anu could turn on (as there is on other message boards).

Hey, AnnaS...it's an entelechyliberating feeling to purge the PM box.

purge the PM box WHA-AT?!?!?!?! Oh my God, I couldn't BEAR to do that! My God, I would never get over the shock--why, I'm close to fainting at the very thought [fanning e]. I have copied, oh, prolly a couple hundred over time and transferred them to my e-mail; but other than those, I have deleted almost none of my PM's since I came here. Good night nurse, they're IMPORTANT ! Just last week something brought to mind a PM I knew I'd gotten some time ago; I delved in and found it; it was from 2001, July I think; it was so nice to read it again, and just for fun I copied it and sent it back to its sender, so we both got a trip down memory lane!

Jackie, have you ever seen Budhist sand artists?

Uh, nope. [strong feeling of walking into a trap e] Why?

"Rex Weil, a professor of art theory at Corcoran College, says that sidewalk chalking at the professional level is more performance than visual art. He has a lot of complicated ideas about how this developed, including that it is a rebellion of contemporary artists against the capitalism of modern art-collecting. Alternatively, he suggests, 'it's a critical posture, a kind of submission to forces that are just undeniable, which are basic entropy. Life and materials are eroding, burning up right as we speak. That's mortality.'"

>it's an entelechyliberating feeling to purge the PM box.

or actually®, freeing up space isn't such a bad thing.