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06-26-2010, 02:18 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Arch/XFCE
Posts: 17,797
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Instant messaging at LQ?
Has anyone ever discussed adding a feature to LQ to allow sending an instant message to another member? Presumably the member would have the option to turn this off and maybe to block messages from specific users.
An alternative would be something that alerts you (while you are online) that you have received a PM or a Visitor Message.
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06-26-2010, 02:48 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 42,711
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well I guess this is largely in line with a chatroom, which is never something that has ever been looked upon favourably as it removes these discussions from the forum, where they can be of use to many other people.
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06-26-2010, 03:55 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Kent, England
Distribution: Lubuntu
Posts: 19,088
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PM alerts can be set within your profile, I get an email when I receive a PM. IM or any other form of chat has always been turned down by Jeremy as it is unmoderated and any discussions would be off forum which goes against the idea of having all discussions fully available.
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06-26-2010, 04:23 PM
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,533
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The "Show New Private Message Notification Pop-up" option sounds like what you're looking for.
--jeremy
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06-27-2010, 03:41 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: the Netherlands
Distribution: lfs, debian, rhel
Posts: 8,711
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@Aashima Singh: Stop spamming. Reported.
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06-27-2010, 03:44 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Australia
Distribution: Lots ...
Posts: 11,234
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Well prior to that, everybody on this thread was (at least) a mod.
I suspect it'll be dealt with drunna ....
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06-27-2010, 04:31 AM
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Guru
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: $RANDOM
Distribution: slackware64
Posts: 12,623
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Well, you can list your IM user name in your profile so people can IM you ... isn't that enough ?
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07-07-2010, 03:19 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2008
Distribution: currently under revision
Posts: 1,235
Rep: 
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Well, if it is adopted, please let's the default be no IM unless set...
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07-08-2010, 01:09 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2008
Posts: 24
Rep:
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I agree this could be an annoying feature.
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