Let me start by giving thanks, for all of us, to Greybeard for his tireless time and efforts and for shouldering the expense to provide us all with this place to get together. And thanks to, to all of you for using it to post your ideas, suggestions, opinions, questions (and answers) and for sharing your experiences for all to enjoy and learn from. It is the best site going.
Because it has grown so large, Greybeard faces a monumental task in keeping it a smooth running site - the software flowing as it should and providing the high quality user friendly features of GBO. He needs every members help on a project right now to accomplish just that.
The PM (Private Mail) feature gets bogged down and overloaded with old messages that require him to spend endless hours going in and deleting them one at a time. Not one or two, but thousands of them, especially ones concerning Classifieds that are long since completed. We can really help him out by going to each of our own PM boxes and deleting all the ones that we no longer need items that are completed, topics long dead, messages that we really just dont need sitting on the system anymore. And its much easier for us to do than for GB by simply checking the boxes of no longer needed ones on the right, they can be deleted all at once from a given box by then hitting the Delete Marked button on the lower right. Youll have to do this for each box that holds your messages - Inbox, Sentbox and Savebox. Dont do the Outbox it holds messages that youve sent that have not been picked up yet by the person you sent it to. PMs left unchecked will remain on the site and in your boxes. Taking a few minutes to do this will be greatly appreciated by the GBO Admin, and will go a long ways towards keeping the site flowing smoothly, and give GB more time to enjoy the outdoor experience with the rest of us instead of slaving over the computer.
BTW, editing your old completed Classified Ads (add DELETE to subject line) would also allow Admin to remove them from the system and be a big help.
Please do not reply to this post instead, use that time and effort to clean up your PM and Classifieds files.
