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Private messages -are they?

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MawB2 Mon 07-Sep-20 20:46:50

I am extremely concerned that Private Messages I have sent to some members have been removed ostensibly “at user’s request”.
This is SIMPLY NOT TRUE.
I understood PMs were precisely that, ie “private” so nobody has the right to read, let alone delete them although I realise they do disappear if a member leaves GN.
I wonder if GNHQ would care to comment?

LaraGransnet (GNHQ) Tue 20-Oct-20 22:44:50

Hi Kitty, sorry we missed this question earlier. I don't think there is a limit but I'll do some investigating and get back to you if that's not the case.

kittylester Tue 20-Oct-20 10:14:21

Is there a limit to the amount of pms we can store?

LaraGransnet (GNHQ) Tue 20-Oct-20 10:09:47

Hi Kitty, we can access PMs, but we don't - unless they're reported to us as spam, or if there's a safeguarding issue. We'd have no reason at all to randomly look at genuine users' PMs. We wouldn't want to do that and nor would we have the time, to be honest. smile
It is also worth knowing that lots of users delete their PMs once they've been read as a matter of course and that will also delete it from your inbox, so having deleted messages these days is pretty normal and doesn't mean there's anything dodgy going on at all. It's likely that the person who sent it to you deleted it. And of course you can do that with all your messages, too, if you don't want them hanging around.

kittylester Tue 20-Oct-20 09:41:35

Thanks Lara, could you also clarify whether you can actually read our PMs. Thank you.

LaraGransnet (GNHQ) Tue 20-Oct-20 09:38:37

Hello! Just to clarify again, if a user deletes their account or messages, then all messages in the chain are removed.
Likewise, if a poster de-registers or asks us to delete all her data, PMs between herself and other posters are deleted from our servers too. Hope that helps. smile

Doodle Mon 19-Oct-20 23:11:40

Callistemon grin brilliant.

Callistemon Mon 19-Oct-20 22:32:43

No soap left! shock
What you gunna do now wen you haf to sing Happy birfday twice?

Marydoll Mon 19-Oct-20 22:08:34

We have no soap left! We used it all in the maths class!

Doodle Mon 19-Oct-20 22:02:51

That’s not fair Miss . I did mean hunners . I foughted you’d maid it up.....but you didn. I alopogise.
Miss , phoenix has to wash her mouff out wiv soap don she ??

phoenix Mon 19-Oct-20 21:58:56

blush

Marydoll Mon 19-Oct-20 21:57:16

It's your bad influence, Doodle !

If you mean, hunners, it's a Scottish word!?

Doodle Mon 19-Oct-20 21:53:35

phoenix we don’t use those sort of words in class. That’s a ruderie blush

Doodle Mon 19-Oct-20 21:52:44

Miss Marydoll I don wanna tell tails butt ewe maid a spellin mistook in youz 19.35.29 post ?.

phoenix Mon 19-Oct-20 20:59:01

And I was saying "Always in the sh*t, only the depth varies"

Marydoll Mon 19-Oct-20 20:29:36

Sorry, we were trying to be a clique! blush

I was saying that basically life is sh** at the moment.

phoenix Mon 19-Oct-20 20:26:41

Sorry kittylester blush

kittylester Mon 19-Oct-20 20:25:31

This is not the foreign words thread!!

phoenix Mon 19-Oct-20 20:18:44

Marydoll, je suis d'accord!

Marydoll Mon 19-Oct-20 19:50:36

I did clear out a number the other day, Bluebelle, so that is very possible. I do it on a very regular basis.

BlueBelle Mon 19-Oct-20 19:47:32

These were the last few you sent me marydoll
I do have a theory but it’s not totally working

Marydoll Mon 19-Oct-20 19:38:31

Phoenix, Je ne suis pas surpris. La vie est pleine de merde en ce moment!

Marydoll Mon 19-Oct-20 19:35:29

Did I? I know nothing, about anything!!! ?

I did have a clear out of my Inbox. I could have.
Old habits die hard, a throwback from my ICT co-ordinator days, as our server was always running out of space!
I know I cleared hunners of Miss MaryDoll's Maths Class PMS. I had pages and pages of them!

I do love a good conspiracy theory! wink

phoenix Mon 19-Oct-20 19:34:31

Well, as I always say, "Semper nen facebes, sole profundum variat".

phoenix Mon 19-Oct-20 19:32:14

QED!

BlueBelle Mon 19-Oct-20 19:28:43

Mine from maw2B were also removed annodomini and also mine from marydoll did you remove them marydoll maybe you did ?