- Personal message
A personal message or private message, often shortened to PM, is like an
e-mail sent from oneInternet forum orbulletin board system user to another user on the same forum.Personal messages are more anonymous than regular e-mail messages because the
e-mail address andIP address of the sender and recipient are not made available, with the exception of administrators and sometimes moderators.This feature is usually implemented on Internet forums and
Internet Relay Chat . Internet forums frequently allow the use ofBBCode in personal messages, and in some casesHTML .A form of PM can be done by any
server-side language , such asPHP ,Perl , etc. to let the user write the message then submit it. By the code written in that server-side language, the message, with its body, subject, places a record in thedatabase .ee also
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Instant messaging
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