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"Capped" IMs
Wall Berliner
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08-04-2008 13:18
Hey, Y'all!

What exactly does "capped" IMs mean? I see this all the time in profiles, with the request that messages be placed into a notecard.
Viktoria Dovgal
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08-04-2008 13:25
If you get too many messages while you're logged out (and it doesn't take all that many), SL unceremoniously dumps the overflow and tells you "Yup, we capped your IMs HAW HAW!" the next time you log in.
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08-04-2008 13:26
I think the maximum is 25, before you just don't get any more.
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Lindal Kidd
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08-04-2008 13:29
100.

See
https://support.secondlife.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=4417
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Lindal Kidd
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08-04-2008 13:30
100? Wow. My alt's usually get capped a lot lower than that. I've counted them and it's about 25 or so.

ETA: That must have changed pretty recently. Looking at the date that KB article was last modified:

Modified: 7/31/08
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Viktoria Dovgal
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08-04-2008 13:35
From: Skell Dagger
100? Wow. My alt's usually get capped a lot lower than that. I've counted them and it's about 25 or so.

ETA: That must have changed pretty recently. Looking at the date that KB article was last modified:

Modified: 7/31/08

They've claimed 100 for a long time but it does poop out well before that, even taking into account other IM-ish things like inventory and group notices.
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Madhu Maruti
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08-04-2008 13:50
In my experience the cap is nowhere near 100, even including inventory offers and group notices. 25 sounds closer to correct. It might even be as low as 20.
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08-04-2008 13:54
From: Madhu Maruti
In my experience the cap is nowhere near 100, even including inventory offers and group notices. 25 sounds closer to correct. It might even be as low as 20.

agreed. that's been my experience too.
Elora Lunasea
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08-04-2008 13:55
I think Madhu is correct. There is no way it's 100. I log in pretty much daily, and certainly don't get 100 messages in one day and I get my messages capped regularly. I should only be that popular :p
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Cristalle Karami
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08-04-2008 13:57
Maybe they mean 100 lines, which could easily be about 20 IMs.
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Ciaran Laval
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08-04-2008 13:58
I'm not having it that it's 100 either, unless there's some weird forumla being applied or away goals count double, there's no way it's 100.
Zaphod Kotobide
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08-04-2008 14:22
Who knows what they mean, but there's only ever one line in one IM

From: Cristalle Karami
Maybe they mean 100 lines, which could easily be about 20 IMs.
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Johan Laurasia
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08-04-2008 14:24
(one) definition of the word capped...

When something is capped, it will not exceed or go past that amount or limit.

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Valentino Tendaze
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08-04-2008 14:24
From: Hana Timtam
agreed. that's been my experience too.
Mine too. I counted once and it was about 20 or 25 (I forget).

What *really* annoys me is the:

SomeRandomAv Idon'tKnow: hi
SomeRandomAv Idon'tKnow: r u on
SomeRandomAv Idon'tKnow: hello?
SomeRandomAv Idon'tKnow has offered to become your friend in Second Life. Log in to accept or decline the offer.
[10 mins later]
SomeRandomAv Idon'tKnow: Valentino?

25% of my offlines gone in one hit... :(
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08-04-2008 15:05
From: Lindal Kidd
100.

See
https://support.secondlife.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=4417

That can't be right. I cap out every other day and I know I don't get 100 offlines every day. More like 30-40.
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Dante Tucker
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08-04-2008 15:17
It's pretty common knoledge that most knoledge base articles are out of date.

The date they show as modified is not a good way of telling either, Most of the base information stays the same across edits.
Wall Berliner
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08-05-2008 13:30
Okay, so now i know what capped means. But now what I don't understand is why the same people who mention capped IMs in their profiles recommend sending a notecard instead. I'd think that from what y'all are saying is that the number of notecards would be capped too.
Viktoria Dovgal
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08-05-2008 13:31
From: Wall Berliner
Okay, so now i know what capped means. But now what I don't understand is why the same people who mention capped IMs in their profiles recommend sending a notecard instead. I'd think that from what y'all are saying is that the number of notecards would be capped too.

That does indeed happen, inventory offers can be lost too.

What some shopkeepers do that does make sense, is to leave a drop box out. Notecards dropped into an object are kept in that object, they don't have to go through the IM system. (Those have problems of their own, because they don't tell you who sent the message, but there are workarounds that are kind of OK.)
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Bartlebus Baxton
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08-05-2008 13:36
From: Wall Berliner
Hey, Y'all!

What exactly does "capped" IMs mean? I see this all the time in profiles, with the request that messages be placed into a notecard.


A lot of the time it just means "I'm a delusional, self-important tosspot"

Bartlebus Baxton
(Please note IMs may be capped, so please leave a notecard instead).
Cristalle Karami
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08-05-2008 13:38
The notecard will go into inventory, but the opportunity to reject it upon login may be lost when IMs get capped. You won't get the blue dropdown menu for it, but it will still sit in your inventory.
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Viktoria Dovgal
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08-05-2008 13:43
From: Cristalle Karami
The notecard will go into inventory, but the opportunity to reject it upon login may be lost when IMs get capped. You won't get the blue dropdown menu for it, but it will still sit in your inventory.

It will be preserved if an avatar directly drops the inventory. Any approach that involves scripted transfers will result in inventory loss (that's SVC-2364).
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Day Oh
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08-05-2008 13:54
100?? Maybe if they're they saving all the StartTyping and StopTyping IM's, too...
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08-05-2008 15:58
Maybe 100 characters? Seems like it at times :P