Are private messages

[IWISHFORDISNEY]

Guessing I am out of the loop on this one. I am stepping away. YIKES.

 

[SplshMtn99]

Found it.
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=92815

Again, regular little ole moderators don't have this ability.

I run a board (not vbulletin type board) and no one can read PMs except person who wrote them or received them. Not even I as the board owner.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

Nana's 3rd rule of proper etiquette (and it translates nicely to the web):

Never say anything that you wouldn't want published.

You have one smart Nana!

 

[Lovin' Lorne]

They can be read by a WM or Mod who has the authorization to do so. At least here on vB. I don't know about the others. It's there incase the Mods need to keep their members "safe" from evil doers on teh interwebs.

 

[disneychrista]

My guess is while WM and owners can read the PM's does not mean that they DO in fact read them.

 

[Amlee]

Yup, they can.

The reason I say yup, is because I got a big warning for doing something that a MOD said was against the rules. In PM a lady contacted me about helping her find a med cruise. She told me what she was looking for. I did a quick search and sent her a link to the different cruise lines that I thought would fit what she was looking for. I had no plans to do any booking with her from the start. Honestly I didn't want the business. Still don't! She came to me, not the other way around. I was accused of soliciting business. The only contact I had with this women was via pm. So my pm's were either read or she turned me in.

 

[SplshMtn99]

Yup, they can.

The reason I say yup, is because I got a big warning for doing something that a MOD said was against the rules. In PM a lady contacted me about helping her find a med cruise. She told me what she was looking for. I did a quick search and sent her a link to the different cruise lines that I thought would fit what she was looking for. I had no plans to do any booking with her from the start. Honestly I didn't want the business. Still don't! She came to me, not the other way around. I was accused of soliciting business. The only contact I had with this women was via pm. So my pm's were either read or she turned me in.

 

[EltonJohn]

The reason I say yup, is because I got a big warning for doing something that a MOD said was against the rules. In PM a lady contacted me about helping her find a med cruise. She told me what she was looking for. I did a quick search and sent her a link to the different cruise lines that I thought would fit what she was looking for. I had no plans to do any booking with her from the start. Honestly I didn't want the business. Still don't! She came to me, not the other way around. I was accused of soliciting business. The only contact I had with this women was via pm. So my pm's were either read or she turned me in.

As Pooh would say Oh Bother.

 

[DevilDuckie]

On any message board you must assume that someone at the top of the food chain can read PMs. Do they? Well, I can't see why they would. I'm sure my PMs are just not that fascinating.

 

[JessicaR]

On any message board you must assume that someone at the top of the food chain can read PMs. Do they? Well, I can't see why they would. I'm sure my PMs are just not that fascinating.

Also it would be quite time consuming to do so. Maybe just the juicy ones.

 

[MAKmom]

Silly me then. I would never have though that mods would read messages intended for others. Boy is my my face crimson.

WTH are you doing in PMs

 

[Robinrs]

Robin....c'mon, you were a moderator here, did you read other's private messages?????? If so, you had powers that none of us have..

Not ONE. I didn't have ANY of the super powers the moderators are accused of ...

IF the WM's have the ability, like they told me that the corporation has the ability to check the websites I'm reading at work... who has has that much time and interest???? And if they DO, who believes they would admit it???

I don't believe anything published on the internet is private. I also don't think anything I write to anyone is all that intriguing so if anyone wants to read it, consider it Sominex....

 

[KarenB]

If someone can and does read our PMs, I think he or she has a little too much time on their hands and needs to find something more productive to do!!

 

[Kathi OD]

Also it would be quite time consuming to do so. Maybe just the juicy ones.

But how would they know which ones were the juicy ones, unless they read them all?

 

[JessicaR]

But how would they know which ones were the juicy ones, unless they read them all?

I'm sure they could start with all the usual suspects and narrow the search from there. That is if they are looking for something specific.

 

[Stella3]

I'm sure there is nothing on the net that is really private.

 

[twinklebug]

I'm sure there is nothing on the net that is really private.

Nothing that is written in this world is private with possible exception to wills, love letters and the occasional scribblings on a cocktail napkin.

Did you know many doctor's offices are outsourcing their dictation to India?!

How about that the privacy policy thing you sign at the drug store does not exclude system developers from pulling up your files?

Even our own government has been looking into using outsourcing for processing our tax returns.

 

[Pop Daddy]

unless where suspected terrorist, I feel it would be classless to read someone else's

 

[Missy1961]

They probably don't read all of them, but they could read the ones they want to. After all, this is really just a great big database, and anyone who works with databases will tell you certain people know what's written there.

The internet ain't private folks. Your boss can read your emails, and web admins can read whatever they want to.

 

[Dolce27]

Nothing that is written in this world is private with possible exception to wills, love letters and the occasional scribblings on a cocktail napkin.

Did you know many doctor's offices are outsourcing their dictation to India?!

How about that the privacy policy thing you sign at the drug store does not exclude system developers from pulling up your files?

Even our own government has been looking into using outsourcing for processing our tax returns.

Geeze.. if everything in the US is moving overseas... I'm beginning to think that we should all move too.