[dwkerr]

The administrators of a forum have responsibility over how the forum operates. I feel have the ability to see everything that is ahppening with the board, including the ability to see private messages, go along with that, it will allow administrators to confirm that their forums is not being used as a message base for persons carrying on illegal / criminal activity. Having said that , administrators should never give out (except by court order) any info read in the private message area, and should include in the registration rules and faq the fact that the owners / administrators do have the ability to monitor / read private message sent on the forum, and the reasons for this as well as a privacy statement.