[Gerardo]

Added to log in time, so people can leave messages when someone is in tourney, being reading fairly quickly

[JRG]

I had trouble understanding your post (I'm a bit slow sometimes). Tell me if this interpretation is correct:

When someone leaves you a Chat Mail message ("Leave mail for"), you do not see it until the next time you login.

Since people cannot send private chat messages to someone playing in a tournament, they often send Chat Mail messages.

Your suggestion is that there be an option when you login (a checkbox) that makes the system send you any queued up chat mail messages when a tournament you are participating in is over. That way you can respond to them sooner (rather than having to logout and login again to check for such messages or just waiting until the next time you login).

[uday]

Rather than add a new form of message, i'd prefer to - perhaps -

show a user any pending mail messages when he exits a tourney.

Pros: mail delivered when a T completes
Cons: User may not want his mail then bec. he might want to look at results, etc.

How does this sound?

[JRG]

uday, on Mar 26 2004, 09:26 AM, said:

Rather than add a new form of message, i'd prefer to - perhaps -

show a user any pending mail messages when he exits a tourney.

Pros: mail delivered when a T completes
Cons: User may not want his mail then :) bec. he might want to look at results, etc.

How does this sound?

I think that is essentially what Gerardo is asking for -- but maybe make it optional, either by a login or user profile option, or by popping up a dialog before attempting to deliver the mail.

For example, "You have messages waiting to be delivered. Do you want to read them now?"

Anyway, I don't play in tournaments, so I'll let Gerardo respond as to whether I interpreted his post correctly and if so, what options he would like to see.

[slothy]

Uday...

I have to agree that it would be a useful feature to have.....

on more than one occasion i have missed what turned out to be an urgent message because the sender had to leave quickly and could not wait for tourney to finish....I think i am typical of many people in that i may leave BBO on / eg 'idle' and not log out and thus will not get the mail message till much later when it may be of little weight then ....

One option could be to have any suspending mail messages flushed to the lobby window maybe in a different color? Cannot see why somebody would not want to read them as they exitted tourney?

Or even have the mailee interrogated, as suggested, when he exits tourney with a pop-up saying mails waiting so that person will know that s/he has mail and will not miss it...

Alex

PS Think this my first serious mail i have directed to you Uday hee hee

[Gerardo]

Yes, you all interpreted well.
Uday, that's what I meant.
This was triggered by yellow scarcity sometimes (certainly in this case) when a member couldn't send a message.
But I think it would be useful for all.