Reply to: Mail Limit - 200 PM's - Can we have more please?

[MarillionFan]

I just delete them all.

Like tears in the rain.

[NickFitz]

But do you think I'm sad enough to download and keep my PM's in a text format, or drop them into a database, catalogued by user, by time, by content for future use???

Just do what I do: download them as XML, then don't bother with the database tulip. Reading XML is easier than reading free text, plus you don't have to bother with a database.

[thunderlizard]

But do you think I'm sad enough to download and keep my PM's in a text format, or drop them into a database, catalogued by user, by time, by content for future use???

hmm...

http://forums.contractoruk.com/techn...-database.html

http://forums.contractoruk.com/techn...-database.html

[MarillionFan]

Ah. You think Doogie is a bit of a twat as well. Nice.

[TestMangler]

[MarillionFan]

If you're serious about keeping them, do you really want to trust CUK to keep proper backups of something as frivolous as PMS?

Of course. It's a well known fact that CUK has been fantastic at keeping old posts/threads over the years. In fact, it's so good an advanced search will bring up anything like the last 300 posts, or failing that you can check out the archive which goes back to well, errrr. But if you really know what you're doing you can actually search individual threads all the way back to 2005 by modifying the php script at the top of the page, plus you can go to the back up site on yuku, which as all the posts from 2002 - 2005 in professional and errr, oh none of the general posts, so that just leaves Nedprod.com for some older stuff where....

Yeah, I'll back them up myself.

[d000hg]

It's not that I'm popular(it is really but bare with me), I'm very unpopular and some of the more interesting insults and death threats I'd like to keep, just in case you know someone does attempt to stick that computer where the sun doesn't shine.

isn't there an export to text file option?

Duh. Yes.

But do you think I'm sad enough to download and keep my PM's in a text format, or drop them into a database, catalogued by user, by time, by content for future use???

If you're serious about keeping them, do you really want to trust CUK to keep proper backups of something as frivolous as PMS?

[MarillionFan]

Indeed. I know I download and keep all my PM's as a profound reminder of my own existence:

PM1: YOU NEGGED ME YOU COW!
PM2: WHY DID YOU NEG ME?
PM3: STOP PICKING ON ME!

etc.

Do you call that folder 'Suityou'?

[MaryPoppins]

Or proof that he exists?

Indeed. I know I download and keep all my PM's as a profound reminder of my own existence:

PM1: YOU NEGGED ME YOU COW!
PM2: WHY DID YOU NEG ME?
PM3: STOP PICKING ON ME!

etc.

[cojak]

That would be like erasing his life story.

Or proof that he exists?

[Cliphead]

That would be like erasing his life story.

[MaryPoppins]

Or you could just delete them?

That would be like erasing his life story.

[cojak]

Duh. Yes.

But do you think I'm sad enough to download and keep my PM's in a text format, or be even sadder and drop them into a database, catalogued by user, by time, by content for future use???

Or you could just delete them?

[Spacecadet]

Duh. Yes.

But do you think I'm sad enough to download and keep my PM's in a text format, or drop them into a database, catalogued by user, by time, by content for future use???

Yes

[cojak]

isn't there an export to text file option?

Yep, there is.