Contacting C-Brats

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al and judy

New member
Looking for advice from C-Brat site users.

New to the forum and here is my dilema---I have attempted to email several members using email link on their member info. This process has resulted in zero responses so I'm wondering if going six days on a five day deoderant pad is a bad thing or if I am trying to make make contact via a method C-Brats don't use??? Is PM the preferred method or------ :?: :?:

As usual any help would be greatly appreciated. :D
 
hi al,
not the case here.
couldn't fined a better group of guys.
what ever your question or suggestion, could be posted here and you'll have plenty of responses.
hope this helps.
best regards
pat
 
Email me through the link and we'll make sure it works, but I'm sure it does. The only trouble I have seen with the site email software is an occasional line or two of nonsense that gets pasted into the text form when it opens. Just delete that if it happens. Bill has it set up so the addresses are blind to the sender, but if the guy you email responds you will get it from his own address. Slows down the email harvesters.
 
Although I always leave the box checked indicating that I will receive a copy of the email I am sending, I never have received a copy. Anybody else notice this?

Rob
 
Al and Judy,
I've always had good results utilizing the "PM" feature of this site. When I "log" on to the site, the first thing I check is the section at the top of the page to see if I have any new messages.
By utilizing this feature, I always know that the individual "personal messaging" me is a fellow C-Brat.
 
I've pretty much stayed with PMs. I get tons of email, much of it spam. It is
easy to accidently loose a message from someone I might not know well in
all that spam.

I always get the email telling me I have a PM waiting, too.

Mike
 
Some of the E mails are old--I suspect I may even have an old E mail out there---
But I get both E mails and PM--seem to work very well.

I am sure that the vast majority of members will answer back.
 
Thanks all for the replies and advice (as my 'ol pappy used to say, "advice is cheap--good advice usually costs a few bucks more") just kidding. We really are thankful for the support and will endeavor to work out the communication kinks as we learn our way around the C-Brat site.

Regards,
Al and Judy

:D :D :D
 
Al and Judy - email can get lost and someone infrequently logging on this site may not get a PM from you for some time. If you know the person regularly logs on or post to this site, the first contact may be best by PM with a follow up post on a thread that that person is posting on, with a message that you sent him/her a PM.

If he or she does not respond, report him/her to the management. :thdown
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Dave dlt.gif
 
I really should just remove the email option - it causes more problems than it solves.

Sending an email through the board has the following problems:

- They routinely get blocked by SPAM software - either on the user's PC, or at the ISP level. If the user you are trying to email is at AOL, there's a better than even chance they'll never see it.

- Users change their email addresses, and don't update their profile. The C-Brat site then sends the email to a black hole.

- Since the C-Brat site sends the email, if it bounces back because of one of the above, nobody ever sees the bounce message.

PM's are the way to go. Not only will a notification email get sent to the user when a PM is sent (subject to the above limitations), but you can tell if the user has read it. It sits in your Outbox until the user reads it, at which time it moves to your Sentbox.

There are many valid reasons for wanting to use email over PM's. But if that is your desire, I'd suggest using a PM to contact a member, and include your email address in it asking for an email reply. This gets around most of the problems above.
 
I agree with Bill Da Nerd....site guroo extstrodinair.....

I can send anyone a PM with my email of choice at the time.
I can keep my email spam blocker way high to cut way back on junk...which is does.

It really helps when you are organizing a gathering. It allows you to send real email, with specific time sensitive stuff to the individulals who are actually signed up to participate... and, simply make a "gathering group" in my email system for that group...hitting one button instead of searching for 6-25 folks...

AND.... most importantly to me... I can add the address folks tell me they are going to use as to have them already in my email address acceptance mode, rather than them having to get that .....crazy weird message to send another message as to allow me to allow a new C-Brat friend in... or something like that.

Byrdman.... going to check my suspect email folder now...which I have not done for a few days.... :mrgreen:
 
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