Right now the only solution is for me to email all users which is both a pain and creates a spam issue.

Could we get an option to be able to PM all users, perhaps from the admin panel? This internal mailing system would work much better than mass emails, and the admin could also set optional parameters as to who would receive the PM:

- users registered between X and Y
- users with postcount between X and Y
- users who have made at least one post since X date

you can do that by using the member search. once you have done a search for your members and the result set is staring at you, you just select to email them from the search results.

yes - but that would not solve the problem about trying to PM a group.

I would love to be able to PM just my moderators for example.

so just adding another option in the Action pulldown would do the trick then..

no?

probably

I run a similar site to Ian, and every so often we have an offer from someone to message all our users with a newsletter.

Unfortunately each time I have to decline as I don't want to send 10k emails to people, plus I think I should never send any ads to email boxes (plus many email addresses listed in users' profiles are out of date).

An internal PM solution would solve the issue as I would be able to send all my users a message without resorting to emails.

Curious how you'd handle users who specify they don't want to recieve PM's yet want to recieve admin notices ;)... If you're sending something important, the proper way would be to not send it

isn't it such that in 7.3, if an admin decides to PM someone they get it regardless ?

i even thought that was in 7.2.2

i might be forgetting something here though :shrug:

That would be the solution; but I'm not sure, hadn't attempted

An admin can pretty much PM anyone without limitation.

I somehow dislike the idea of masscommunication by PM, you got a forum for mass communication, and PM's, well, for stuff that only a few users have to see.