Private message upgrade

Any chance of getting back the ability to know if the pms sent have been read or not? This is especially handy in the case of less regular posters.

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1. I'm not sure that feature still exists.
2. I didn't know it existed in the first place and I'm not sure I like the idea of it that much.

So it'll need a lot of votes, cos at the moment, it's 1 vs. 1 and I have to do the work

The feature that alerted you to the fact you had a PM seems to have vanished. I just checked mine by chance and discovered, much to my surprise, that I had some waiting for me! Could this be put back in?

No, having that pm 'read or not' feature is fucking creepy.
DO NOT WANT

Only yours tbf.

Basically LW has admitted she is a stalker.

yeah fuck that feature, it's creepy

Yeah, but now no-one is sending me any. The bastards.

Eh no it is creep stalker shit
'I need to know if they have read their post and how long they are taking to reply'

eh, don't be a shit stirring wanker jef, I think LW is sound
I just think that function is just stupid creepy shit and unneccesary

I don't see how its any worse than the thing that tells you when txts have been read, then again I did turn it off on my old phone cause I thought it was kind of creepy (then I turned it back on again cause it's useful)

Yeah, having yer phone buzz to tell you when someone has read the text you sent them is fuckin awful, causes all sorts of rows and paranoia (with people who use this function).

With phones it doesn't actually tell you when some one reads a message just when they receive it, some times it is useful, like when people have no signal, so you don't send loads of messages when you are trying to meet up or some thing.
I don't have it turned on on my current phone, because i am to lazy to figure out how, and because it not really essential, plus people should respond in there own time.
Also its pretty annoying when you think you have a message and its just a receipt

Phone reports can't be sent as a text message (this is for losers that no one ever messages) or you can have it that it remembers. It pops up a little thing saying delivered, usually after a few seconds. Like RG says it can be useful especially when there is poor reception, like in London where people can be on the tube and not receive messages, or when I was on holiday up north recently and didn't have reception a llot of the time. Although I did nearly get lynched for having a devil box, I got out of that by telling them that it wasn't a devil box, just a demon that I had imprisoned.

Yeah the IOW is pretty weird in that respect. Pal of mine who lives there has only recently got a reliable broadband connection. Pretty bizarre given that the IOW is not exactly a remote outpost - it is only a hop skip and a jump away from the mainland.

To allay any stalker tendency concerns people may have i am just relieved to know that any message i send via any medium has been received. My fam who are a bit paranoid at the best of times failed to believe i had written to them twice, second time recorded delivery - nowt ever reached them so snailmail is as bad. Having said this, you can be given false reassurance via technology which is even worse - twice on MySpace i got upset pms from people asking why i had not replied to them, both times MS had showed the message as "read". I resent them. i think they believed me. Catch should be in charge of everything techie in the universe, then things would run smoothly.