# Private Messages

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-messages/393430
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [February 23, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-messages/393430 "2007-02-23T20:46:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![milquetoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@milquetoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milquetoast)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-messages/393430/1 "2007-02-23T20:46:20Z")

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I just found out we can PM ourselves. I tested it out of curiosity. It says I have two messages total, yet I can see only one (the one I sent to myself). What’s up with that?

Edit Test: It appears we can edit earlier message even efter posting later messages in the same thread.

Or can we?

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### Author: ![milquetoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@milquetoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milquetoast)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-messages/393430/2 "2007-02-23T20:48:38Z")

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I just realized that it keeps PMs we send out in a separate folder, and the contents of that folder are applied to our PM count.

Carry on.