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[ptalindstrom]

hey guys... great mass PM mod.. and first time i ever saw an external forum off phpbb site - i like it.

So a couple things i just thought i would comment on or ask re: Mass PM mod.

I have a very hacked up and stripped down version of phpbb on my site and a very specific idea for the use of mass PM's. When i came up with the idea i figured i would start writing it for myself but then someone pointed me to your mod and it seemed like a better starting point.

Sure enough i got it installed without much trouble and it does look like a pretty good place for me to start from.

My comments/questions/suggestions:

question first: if i am notifiying on many PMs do you do the split into chunks thing and send a few "large" emails with multiple receivers - i have seen mass emailer mods for phpbb that do this OR do you send individual emails - which of course simplifies chuning.. but at the expense of massive server load. I.e. 200 PMs should likely be split into 4 (50 user) emails rather than 200 single user emails or 1 200 user email (which will likely get dumped by most MTAs

and thoughts:

- i guess i sort of figured when someone got the PM it would say it came from the group as opposed to from the user
- and then a reply; would run groupmsg rather than privmsg to reply to group - sort of like normal subscription system
- i know this is likely hard to do with the way phpbb does pm's

- also, was surprised you dont filter out sender so he doesnt get his own msg

- and, also likely hard to hack???... figured that sender would only see 1 msg sent in his outbox and that would be to the group.. .i guess otherwise he could send to a large group and overflow outbox immediately.
- again this is likely complicated with the way phpbb does pm's - especially would remove the concept of showing items split between outbox/sentbox as there is now only 1 msg that goes to outbox rather than 200.

I guess i will do a little diggin into your mod to see if any of these are managable...

thanks a ton,
cheers,

peter...