# Can you Private message everyone in a thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 31, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-private-message-everyone-in-a-thread/491502 "2009-03-31T21:29:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-private-message-everyone-in-a-thread/491502/1 "2009-03-31T21:29:34Z")
There are a lot of posts going around and in each one the same few people keep responding to them. I am one of them, and I would like to ask them each a question in PM. The same question. Short of putting in each name, How can I do this? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-private-message-everyone-in-a-thread/491502/2 "2009-03-31T22:19:09Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > There are a lot of posts going around and in each one the same few people keep responding to them. > > I am one of them, and I would like to ask them each a question in PM. The same question. > > Short of putting in each name, How can I do this? I don’t believe vBulletin offers this option. You can only PM five persons at a time and I don’t see a way to set up distribution lists. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-private-message-everyone-in-a-thread/491502/3 "2009-04-01T01:14:21Z")
And lots of folks have PMs turned off, so you wouldn’t be able to get to them anyways.