Does private messenging impact on forum content?

Brown envelope is in the usual place

 

Well that's certainly cut down on the reading of 'new posts' workload.

 

I've got a good secretary

 

or....don't ask permission at all! but pretend that it has "been approved" ....then just hope & pray they don't bother to check in on each other to find out which one, if any, it was that approved it

 

We'm not born yesterday

 

What about this forum? (which indicates that 'private' stuff is not necessarily 'private')
http://xenforo.com/community/resources/conversations-access-by-waindigo.2357/

 

I don't know if administrators can see other people's inboxes on here. Its not something I've ever looked into, as private messages are private. If we're splitting hairs though, NOTHING is truly private on the internet, as at some point, data has to be stored somewhere, even if only temporarily, in order for it to work, and it has to be transmitted too, so anything you do on any internet site is technically visible to somebody.

This is true of Gardener's Corner, your personal email, Facebook, and even your internet banking website which will no doubt boast about its strong security and strict privacy.

 

I thought admin could see all the private conversations anyway!!

 

I can't.

 

When I said I thought that admin had access to pm's anyway, I meant for the purposes of sorting out someones account if there was a problem with them being able to use pm's. I wasn't for one minute suggesting that admin are snooping on anybody and I am putting this down for the record. I wasn't implying that there was a trust issue.

 

Hmm, no, but that is an interesting point, Jiffy.

Not even considered that aspect Kandy.

I'm back

That is precisely what I was getting at

I'll pm you my response to that Our Mandy

Oh I totally agree on that front

Zigs pretty much hit the nail on the head in where I'm coming from with my question.
When I came in yesterday, I knew I had some messages to respond to then more needed a reply and then by the time I'd read the latest posts, responded to a few, read and written PM's ... I'd forgotten the questions I had come here intending to ask So that made me wonder if private messaging impacts on the forum content (because it certainly did with mine )?

 

We'm got no idea what you lot are pm'ing each other about and we don't want to know

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