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rMail yourself?

Posted by Shannara
Shannara
moderator, 3853 posts
When in doubt,
frolic!
Fri 5 Jun 2020
at 10:06

rMail yourself?

It would be nice if you could rmail notes to yourself - lists, notes for games, etc. that you might want to keep.

Scratchpads are nice, but they're tied to games and go away if the game does.
Akarui
member, 197 posts
Active since: 2010
Fri 5 Jun 2020
at 12:13
  • msg #2

rMail yourself?

I second this. Would make for much easier organization.
NowhereMan
member, 359 posts
Fri 5 Jun 2020
at 12:15
  • msg #3

rMail yourself?

I didn't know this wasn't possible until today. Seconded.
aguy777
member, 335 posts
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Thu, 28 Nov, 2013
Fri 5 Jun 2020
at 23:43
  • msg #4

rMail yourself?

I'll second this. Like NowhereMan, I didn't know this wasn't possible.
horus
member, 952 posts
Wayfarer of the
Western Wastes
Sun 21 Jun 2020
at 00:14
  • msg #5

rMail yourself?

I'm not at all opposed to this concept, however, I would offer some counterpoint:

The Scratchpad in any game is only 10,000 characters in size.  That might not be enough room for extensive notes.  From this the desire to rMail oneself arises.  I can see that well enough.

I tend to keep notes about a game (especially those things the players should not yet know) offline.  That said, I get that, as a GM, being able to send rMail to oneself might be convenient.  Players might also gain benefit from rmailing themselves, I don't know.

The closest one might come to this is to clear out an old rMail topic and re-use it for this purpose.  I wonder if one could mail notes to an NPC in a game?  Hang on a tick... Hmm... can't rMail to one's own NPCs, so, yeah, re-using an old rMail topic might be as close as one could currently get.

One can also create a topic in one's game for notes, put it in Group Z (I think) and don't put anyone in Group Z that shouldn't see your notes.

The only concern I might raise would be if self-rMail were to result in a large rise in bandwidth or something like that.
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