# Are you using a real user to send welcome messages?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-you-using-a-real-user-to-send-welcome-messages/24292>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [January 21, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-you-using-a-real-user-to-send-welcome-messages/24292 "2015-01-21T22:35:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 12:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-you-using-a-real-user-to-send-welcome-messages/24292/4 "2015-01-22T00:39:43Z")

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I agree this is annoying, however, note that search within your PMs works fine if you want to find a particular message. Try initiating a search from the messages tab on your user page – there is a checkbox for it – or view the search help.

Longer term we do need a way of segregating out all the thousands of welcome PMs…

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