WTF? 65,543 New Messages?

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_barrelomonkeys
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Re: WTF? 65,543 New Messages?

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Dr. Shades wrote:
harmony wrote:I'm quite cautious about 1 message, let alone 65,543. Good thing I rarely get PM's (unless it's Shades telling me to quit taking up so much bandwidth!)


??? Have I done that?



I was worried you did. If anyone takes up bandwidth around here it's me!
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Post by _barrelomonkeys »

It just happened again!!!!! I logged in and the wee box popped up saying I had 65,000 + messages.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there something wrong with the message system?
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Re: WTF? 65,543 New Messages?

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barrelomonkeys wrote:So my little pm alerter just alerted me that I had 65,543 new messages.

I thought, oh wow! :O

Looked and just a few...so what's up with THAT?

Is anyone else having pm issues?


How many 1024s can you put into 655435?

Bill Gates said ought to be enough for anyone.

/Showing his coding geekness.
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Post by _Belial »

I'm guessing you have negative 1 messages.
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Post by _barrelomonkeys »

Were these replies supposed to be helpful in some manner?

Shades? Bond?

Oh, I'm so paranoid now.

And not entirely certain why!
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Post by _Bond...James Bond »

barrelomonkeys wrote:Were these replies supposed to be helpful in some manner?

Shades? Bond?

Oh, I'm so paranoid now.

And not entirely certain why!


I don't have any weird message issues.....just my normal 15 messages from secret admirers (love you DCP *kiss*)

Don't be paranoid monkeys!!! I'm ordering you to curl up with a warm mulled mead, your favorite list of angry punk songs, and call me in the morning.

Seriously, I'm sure it's just some sort of glitch or something.
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Re: WTF? 65,543 New Messages?

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barrelomonkeys wrote:Is anyone else having pm issues?


You're suffering from PMS: Private Messages Syndrome. It happens when normal everyday messages start cramping your in-box and they become overly significant and exaggerated.

...well somebody had to do it.
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Post by _asbestosman »

Belial wrote:I'm guessing you have negative 1 messages.

Except that negative 1 would probably be 65535 (as an unsignted short)

Monkey's number is 0x10007H
In other words, it's 65536 (a magic computer number representing 2 to the power of 16) added with 7.


In short Monkeys, I'm with Bond in thinking it's a glitch with the software. Keene will have to look into it if we're to discover why.
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Post by _barrelomonkeys »

How could I have a negative 1 message?

Does that mean I had a message and someone deleted it right as I logged on?
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Post by _barrelomonkeys »

Well it may very well have been 65535 messages.... I recall when I wrote the orignal post I had some difficulty recalling precisely what the number was. Because it had no meaning for me.
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