I'm pretty sure this has been asked for somewhere else, but I don't have time to look it up at the moment, nor do I want to resurrect an old thread if it's all old and stuff.

Anyway, it would be really awesome if you could see messages you've sent to people. If I had a nickle for everytime I've sent a message to someone and they asked a question about what I'd said and I couldn't remember the exact wording (or even the message, if it'd been long enough! ), I'd have a big ol pile of nickles.

Maybe it would only keep the last ten or twenty or so or something if space is an issue or something. I dunno.

Anyway, that's my idea. Making sent messages viewable too.

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Er, interesting idea and I don't really object, but it's probably a bigger coding project than you may suspect and I doubt we'll have the resources to do this one in the foreseeable future.

I don't doubt it. I'm coding retarded.

Ah well... maybe someday!

Would have been a nice idea if it were feasible though, happens to be all the damn time.

That's why it is only good messaging manners to reply to messages: msg x re: your inquiry about a library aide position. I would very much like you to join our team! <3 xoxo

Indeed it is, but I forget to do that half the time, and people I message forget to do that the other half of the time, so inevitably something gets lost

Clearly, the answer is to write a messaging script that does it all for you.

Thank you for the idea! I've been wanting something new to script, and this could definitely be interesting!

I has the simple, client-side solution. Takes no work at all! Message yourself the message you sent, and then DELMSG when you don't need it anymore.

There's an idea... as long as I remembered to do it each time. Which is iffy. But it's a solution.

Thanks!

Other idea is to put them in the MUSH notepad. I used that for my Astrology spheres.

Also, please cut and paste Imperian code for messages. They get the ability to simply do "more" rather than having to do readmessages 16 full, readmessages 32 full, and so on each time.

it would be fairly easy to juryrig the current message system to Noola's idea. Have each character assigned a 'secondname' something like Noolasent. Then have all message sent from Noola send a copy to Noolasent. Then a command to check sent messages would be msgsent and that would display the messages sent to Noolasent?

Seems like a much easier juryrig that didn't double the size of the user database (and sweet heavens, the problems that would cause) would be for the message command to send you the message too. But that's much easier done client-side.

But the 'secondname' would just be for sent messages, there wouldn't be all the info that a character file has, score, status, affiliations, honors, etc. So, it'd be a much smaller thing than the regular user stuff... I assume. But keep in mind... I know nothing about anything, so I could totally be wrong. If so, that's cool.