Can Admins Read PM's ?

[Dreddz]

I forget where I heard about this, but can they, cause thats wrong if they could.

[Yamaneko]

Yes, we COULD read PMs, but we don't unless a complaint is raised regarding harassment via PM. In other words, we only check member's PMs if permission is given beforehand.

This could've been PMed (!) to a staff member.

[ShunNakamura]

I forget where I heard about this, but can they, cause thats wrong if they could.

I would think it obvious that they could. The data for the PM has to be stored somewhere on thier server(or another I guess you could use another server that they had access to(not sure though, never played with forums), but regardless the data is there. And if it is there it can be read. Just like e-mail.

Bear in mind that doesn't mean they do read it or would want to.

[Old Manus]

Some PMs get mysteriously lost during travel

Bit like the Royal Mail really

[Del Murder]

It's not wrong. This is a privately owned site, and therefore all posts and pms made here are the property of Eyes on Final Fantasy. Don't worry though, no one's reading your pms.

[Raistlin]

It's not wrong. This is a privately owned site, and therefore all posts and pms made here are the property of Eyes on Final Fantasy.

Beat me to it, SD.

I remember in vB2 there was a "check members' PMs" part of the admin CP. Although that seems to be gone in vB3 (pre-3.5, anyway, as I still haven't bought that renewal-membership thingy for upgrading for tGA), though there's still definitely a way to do it. But for anyone at tGA: you can be sure I'm not reading your PMs, because I don't give a damn to figure out how to do it.

[edczxcvbnm]

Because they can read PMs I leave them hate mail in my PMs...just in case

[Psychotic]

What about if the PM has been deleted? Can you still read it then? As that'd be lot of PMs you people are keeping stored somewhere in the bowels of EoFF.

[Yamaneko]

I'm pretty sure it gets deleted from the DB.

[crono_logical]

We can see anything stored in the database using SQL queries if we really wanted to But yes, being able to and wanting to are completely different things

[Dreddz]

Well, dosent PM stand for Private Message, kinda loses the purpose of being called a PM. As its not.

[Yamaneko]

There's nothing we can do about it. Anything stored on the server or database is avaliable to those with the proper permission. We cannot just magically hide your PMs and yet still keep them on the database. The point here is that the admins do not look at your PMs without prior consent. If you cannot accept that then I suggest you stop using the PM service.

[Dreddz]

Its a game of trust now is it, Hmmmmm

[Shoeberto]

Maybe as part of a fundraiser we could start selling tin-foil hats.

[crono_logical]

Same with any computer and network access Do you trust your ISP enough to chat with people and send unencrypted emails, probably logging in with plain-text passwords?