Private PM's

[Anonymous]

How private are PM's, do the moderators ever read them. Just wondered.

 

[Philly]

PM's are indeed private.
Philly

 

[JFC]

Oh good , we can carry on talking about you then :lol:

 

[Good Surname or what ?]

Well. He would say that - wouldn't he :lol:

 

[RobertMP]

I'd guess if the forum owner wanted to hack into the database he could read private messages. Moderators would not have that access.

 

[Anonymous]

Oh good , we can carry on talking about you then :lol:

Yep, without us ever knowing that you do.

Well, except now we know you do of course :wink: :lol:


Only the pm recipient can read the pm - neither us nor Charley can see them

 

[DomValente]

I think we should encode all of our PM's.
So from now on:
A=1 , B=2, C=3 and so on, but don't tell the mods.

Dom

 

[RogerS]

Ssshhh....Grey Squirrel may be listening

 

[andrewm]

I think we should encode all of our PM's.
So from now on:
A=1 , B=2, C=3 and so on, but don't tell the mods.

Dom

EBG-13 unf nyernql orra vairagrq gb qb whfg gung.

 

[Dave S]

EBG-13 unf nyernql orra vairagrq gb qb whfg gung.

Fuuu... qba'g gryy rirelbar! :jvax:
Qnir

 

[JFC]

4 15 13 19 1 3 15 23 2 15 25 :lol: :shock:

 

[Slim]

Gurer ner 10 glcrf bs crbcyr va gur jbeyq: gubfr jub haqrefgnaq ovanel, naq gubfr jub qba'g. :wink:

 

[DomValente]

4 15 13 19 1 3 15 23 2 15 25 :lol: :shock:

To save me the travelling time, could you come over here to discuss the above :twisted:

Dom

 

[JFC]

Tonto told me to say it :lol:

 

[kafkaian]

How private are PM's, do the moderators ever read them. Just wondered.

I run a forum for another subject and it's quit an easy process to read PMs through the SQL tables on the server that hosts the software than runs the site via phpMyAdmin.

In phpBB you can download or write mods to view as plugins

Alternatively, a php script is simply written to pull the data off the SQL tables

What I did initially was to devise an encryption process that left private messages on servers in gobbledegook which then had to be decrypted. This worked fine until software kernel changes and phpBB upgrades meant I didn't have the time to continually update the mods.

 

[Gary]

So why do the PM's sit in your outbox for so long?

 

[wizer]

PMs stay in the outbox until the recipient has read the message, then it is transferred to the sentbox

DeJaVu