Private messages - blank

[Michael Palaeologus]

I have had a bunch of PMs over the last few days concerning the next drinks. All of them are blank - no content or anything. Any ideas?

[StraferJack]

From people you know and would expect to hear from? Or from some possible bots?

And is your mailbox full? Just another possibility

[mockney piers]

are they from japesters putting tags around their messages?

[Michael Palaeologus]

Neither. They are from friends and these are part of a discussion about the next drinks (I think). Its just a blank page.

The first PM was from Jaws to a group of us and then the responses.

Odd. Still blank, all of them.

[????]

*whispers* inivisible ink

*taps nose*

[Michael Palaeologus]

Oh Great. I have tried squeezing lemon juice on my keyboard and now it is b*ggered.

Thanks a Bunch.

[????]

Iron it you idiot..... or put it over a candle

[Administrator]

Have you tried turning it off, waiting 10 seconds then turning it back on again?

Seriously though we've not heard of this happening before so we'll keep an eye on it and please let me know if it happens again.

[ianr]

I've just spent an edifying ten minutes sending myself mainly blank messages.

My guess is that yours started and ended with angle brackets, which fooled the parser into thinking that they were an HTML command. So, for example,

(pate de foie gras cats)

will appear blank in preview and on receipt, but still be sendable, if angle brackets are used instead of round ones. The system won't allow you to send a truly blank message.

[Michael Palaeologus]

Haha! For the record - messages arent blank - its just that the pagination is at the far bottom and has to be scrolled down to. If that makes sense.