I was looking through some of my old PMs and it occurred to me that I would be able to remember the whole conversation better if it were displayed in a thread format like the messages on the public boards rather than only seeing the messages I've received. Just a suggestion....
SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0            0 rows returned
It would only work if the other side had not deleted the PM. We only store one copy of each PM. So - in the current format, not likely to happen.
PM is the lowest priority feature offered on the board, in my opinion -- it's for post-it notes. Any real conversations should probably be taken to (private) e-mail.
Not that we read your PMs but we could - your email is a much more private venue for private conversations.
I don't intend to pursue this further, but what about leaving the entry with (deleted dd-MON-yyyy hh:mm by userX) like when a thread post is deleted? (just curious)
*edit: ...I don't use PMs for what I consider "private" conversation anyways. Mostly just for topics that are not of interest to the majority of the board.
(edited by rinberg on 13.4.06 1614) SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0 0 rows returned
I actually got like 7000009 or something like that, and I even made a screen-capture of it, but at the time I didn't have any place to put it online. Then when I came up with my Yahoo! Groups scheme ( http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/wienerboard/ )