Private Message Mod, monitoring messages (Page 3 of 3)

Hey, this is just my thought on this whole thing.
Don't do it, and if you do, make sure people know that you're doing it.
I would want to know this, before registering at a website....that way I wouldn't register there.
I would recommend more of a "report" pm...

Do you think places like myspace, eharmony, etc and others, including ISP's cannot read your pm's or email?? Believe me they have access to these things if they choose too. If you read they're Terms or Use or (TOS) Terms or Service agreements, in fine print, they 'reserve the right' to aquire information they need to or about a user that relates on their site if they feel (it involves suspected criminal circumstances or activity). Which inturn supercedes a norm privacy policy on some of these sites.... So if they want to, they have right to for this reason. Just read the fine print on some of these sites sometime.

BTW, my Terms of Use Agreement & TOS, on my site, reads this way anyways, where I reserve the right if I see the need to if I am ordered by any law inforcement agency to do so about a user. And yes, every new member on my site has to by-pass my TOU & TOS anyways, which states this, so its not like they don't know after signing up.

But anyways, it would be good though to have a feature like this AP_PM-Monitoring.php thingy available (incase you see the need to use it).

Just my 2cents & Opinion...

Its unfortunete that anyone who runs a website that charges membership, or exchanges money somehow, basically falls under the rules and becomes governed by the "US Federal Trade Commission" (if your servers location is based in the USA) without evening knowing about it. Which is a bummers for webmasters. I also know since all the Myspace controversy, that the Feds are more so clamping down of gaining some control and trying to enacting crazy laws over US based websites & ISP's in requiring them to keep digital/text records and monitoring of all type of comunications/dailog between member/users - because of all the problems with the 'no good' types of people out there. And I wouldn't doubt the feds later will try to enact laws over free message boards/forums/blogs sites somehow eventually. So (I think) a persons privacy rights will not be so private much as time go's on... Anyhow's, so said...

But otherwise, like you suggested, having some type "report" pm mod/plugin sounds like a very good idea. And that would work for me too.

Cheers

Hi Smarty,

Thanks for the reply. Otherwise when I hit the AP_PM-Monitoring.php in my admin panel, the page opens but gives me this::

This is the url displayed::

../forums/admin_loader.php?plugin=AP_PM-Monitoring.php

This is what it shows me this message::

"Bad request. The link you followed is incorrect or outdated."

Any idea's Smarty??

Thanks

Hi Smarty... Thanks for da info! The underscore thing worked...thks!

BTW,...do I have to RUN the "Start Indexing" thing first before I use this plugin??

Let me know.

thanks

Ok.... I understand....Thanks Again for da info!!!!

Cheers!

Plugins are only run when you view them through the admin panel and I don't think that adding an index to the messages table has much affect on the speed of normal forum operations, so I doubt it's the plugin that's slowing things down.

Yes, you're adding an index: it takes quite a while (and MySQL tends to devote itself to that task, which might cause other things to become slow):)