# Do you mind if people (from the SDMB) you don't know, PM you or E-mail you...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mind-if-people-from-the-sdmb-you-dont-know-pm-you-or-e-mail-you/413707>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 30, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mind-if-people-from-the-sdmb-you-dont-know-pm-you-or-e-mail-you/413707 "2007-07-30T17:03:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mind-if-people-from-the-sdmb-you-dont-know-pm-you-or-e-mail-you/413707/81 "2007-08-13T20:38:14Z")

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I wouldn’t have made my info available and turned on PM’s if it bothered me. I’ll talk to just about anyone. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mind-if-people-from-the-sdmb-you-dont-know-pm-you-or-e-mail-you/413707/82 "2007-08-13T20:58:35Z")

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I don’t mind it at all. I would actually prefer PM over email, because if I don’t know the sender sometimes I don’t open emails. A PM I would know came from this board. I like most everyone here, so PM away!

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mind-if-people-from-the-sdmb-you-dont-know-pm-you-or-e-mail-you/413707/83 "2007-08-14T14:28:59Z")

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There is a reason I have my email available in my profile.

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mind-if-people-from-the-sdmb-you-dont-know-pm-you-or-e-mail-you/413707/84 "2007-08-14T14:34:57Z")

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[QUOTE=Kyla]  
I have 10 PMs in the upper right hand corner. I haven’t deleted them because I like remembering that people wanted to talk to meeeeeeee.

Okay, that sounds pretty pathetic. It’s not _that_ big a deal.  
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Hey, I keep mine too. I love PMs.

For whomever asked, PMs feel to me a step before e-mail, and also a good way to transfer quick info. When we did our Dopefest recently, PMs were a great way to transfer phone numbers, first names, etc. Also if I am not on an e-mail basis with someone already I prefer to PM them first.

Plus, I, personally, love gettting PMs, as I said before, so I like sending them too.

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