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muddyjames:
I am on quiet a few forums and there is one that I am on and I have now found out today that all the private messages are being read.

Is this a normal thing to have done by admin people or is this just a very bad practice? The thing I sent privately too another user has now got me into a sticky situation as an admin or two has miss read it and taken it the wrong way. grrrr

I feel that my private messages being read to people and from people is a breech of my privacy. I feel that letters (you remember the ones. The ones that get put through a slot in your front door by a "postman") text messages and PM's should all be treeted with the same utter most respect and privacy. I wouldn't dare go into someones house and pick up thier mail and read it unless they gave it to me to read and said "here, have a read of this", so why read pm's????

am I getting picky in me old age????

Anyone know of any other forums that the admins read pm's? If this is a common thing then I will stop sending pm's from this second onwards. I have sent quiet personal things through pm's before now and even things like my phone number and or address.

rant over.

denviks:
right bud where to begin  :lol:  :lol: ...i am admin on plcuk and we have the ability to read pm's as most forums do..... infact when you redgister you read through the do's and dont's on our forum it tells you admin have the ability to read pm's.

just because the facility is there doesnt mean to say its used. i know that the 3 admin on there do not read pm's. we believe that PRIVATE messages are just that.

i am a member on some forums where the admin there do read them and i am aware that they do so i dont pm from there, i email instead  :wink:

different clubs ad different rules i suppose mate.....

PRIVATE MESSAGES SHOULD BE PRIVATE

 :wink:

muddyjames:
just incase anyone is panicking it isnt a 4x4 forum. Landy owners who run forums are too nice to do this.

Who reads the small print? Maybe I should from now on!!!  :oops:

Smego:
Just because they can read the messages does not give thhem the right to without just cause. What you have discribed is illeagal and if I found out an admin had read my private messages I would either sue or punch them on the nose depending on who they were!!

muddyjames:
I have now been told that all pm's are read on forum XXXXXX to make sure the forum isn't being abused.

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