Forum Question (deal, required, flood)

[Maine Writer]

I'm trying to DM three people at once. I get this message:

You may send your message to up to 1 people at a time.
Separate multiple user names with ';'

Am I doing something wrong? If I can separate multiple uses why can I DM only one person at a time? Maybe I have a setting wrong?

[Zymer]

Originally Posted by Maine Writer

I'm trying to DM three people at once. I get this message:

You may send your message to up to 1 people at a time.
Separate multiple user names with ';'

Am I doing something wrong? If I can separate multiple uses why can I DM only one person at a time? Maybe I have a setting wrong?

Chalk it up to stupid instructions. An extra line of code could fix it. Ignore the implication that you can send more than one at a time.

[Cornerguy1]

Members are limited to sending DMs to one member at a time to try and prevent the DM system from being used by spammers to flood the site.

[Maine Writer]

Zymer, I tried to post this yesterday but my connection went down. Thanks! I'm glad it's not me.

Cornerguy, thanks to you too. A change in wording would be helpful. Spamming would be still be difficult if we could send to two or three people. I doubt spammers are going to wait the length of time required before DM'ing again when he can spam only two or three members at a time. Thanks for the explanation. I admin a couple of boards and appreciate not having to deal with spammers.