[Mobius]

I noticed that, without considering the HLP calendar and the piece of cake near the age, there's not that much the community does when the birthday of a member arrives. Is there a way to set automatized "Happy Birthday" e-mails or even PMs?

You know, Woo's birthday is close... 

[Snail]

Automated emails are annoying... But PMs are ok IMO.

[Mobius]

Are you sure? Automated e-mails should be easier to program. There are automated e-mails for PMs, there could be automated PMs for Birthdays.

[Snail]

Yeah, but I disabled automated emails for PMs, myself. I find any form of automated email (even notification for posts) extremely annoying. I don't know why.

[Mobius]

I agree on saying that automated e-mails for PMs are annoying. But there's just one birthday per year. It can be done I think.

[Snail]

1 more useless message for when I check my my email.

[Mobius]

Call it "useless"...

Admins! Is it possible to do or not?

[Snail]

It's possible I'd say. But I don't see the point of another pointless automated email.

[Mobius]

Feel free to consider it pointless....

[Flipside]

I often get a PM or two on my Birthday, which is always nice

[Mobius]

I got a thread the last year

And tomorrow is Woomeister's birthday. Do we have a chance of seeing this HB system on by tomorrow?

[Hippo]

instead of worrying if a system can be put in place before his birthday, why dont you write him a personal happy birthday email or pm and send it yourself? it will mean a lot more to him than an automated one from a bulletin board.

[Mobius]

You can only imagine how many HB PMs I send. The most recent ones were for... SF-Junky and Charismatic. But there should definitely be an automated e-mail system.

[Hades]

You know, I was going to send a Happy Birthday PM to Woo...

[Mobius]

You should.

Automatized e-mails could help in bringing some inactive members back. I think it is a good idea.

[Mustang19]

I never liked automated mail. It would take less than a minute to come up with a short PM yourself- perhaps a birthday PM to every member who has been here for, I don't know, 2-3 years would make sense. If you're just doing this to get old members back, type the emails yourself. Automated emails, no matter how well-intentioned, usually sound like spam.

This kind of reminds me of the whole Welcome Beam speech fiasco.

[Mobius]

E-mails are e-mails...the fiasco was probably caused by spamming(easy posts for everyone, since newbies rarely post in General Discussion).

And come on, one e-mail per year...it can't be considered spam and/or something boring.

[Mustang19]

Ok, sounds good. It might make some of the newer members feel welcome, especially. Which would include myself.

[Mobius]

None of the Administrators posted. They're the ones who can decide if automated e-mails for HBs should be activated, not us.

[Hippo]

Posted and Read are completely different.