Version: 0.7, by Dream
Developer Last Online: Sep 2010
Category: Administrative and Maintenance Tools -
Version: 3.6.8
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Released: 08-05-2006
Last Update: Never
Installs: 1657
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This will let you read your member's private messages.
Features:
- List PMs separated by sent/received given a username or id
- List all users with PMs
- Search PMs by "exact text", "all words" and "at least one of the words"
- List the latest 100 PMs sent
Installation:
Upload "read_pms.php" to your admincp folder and "cpnav_rpm.xml" to your includes/xml folder. Do not import the xml, upload it!!!
Usage:
On your admin control panel, under the "User" menu theres a link to the Read PMs mod. Only Super Administrators can use it.
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This modification may not be copied, reproduced or published elsewhere without author's permission.
VBulletin, I would suggest that you distance yourself from this mod. I think that it is a violation of the trust which users place in their forum administrators. I own a large website of about 170,000 users in the UK and if word got out that I had installed something like this (and word always gets out) I would have a mass revolution on my hands and can imagine that it could bring down the site.
Additionally we are presently being challenged under UK Data Protection laws to disclose to a certain individual any personal data we are holding on him. We don't hold personal data, but he thinks we do. In the list of disclosures, he has also demanded that we disclose the contents of privatemessages to him where they contain references to him. he is making an official complaint to the UK Information Commissioner.
I can tell you that if I had this mod installed, then I would be legally obliged to satisfy his request. The publicity would break us but also it could then lead to libel or other legal actions against our users. Data Protection laws are generally the same through out the European Union and therefore any other EU forum administrator who is considering this mod should reflect very carefully
Additional dramatic spin-offs could be to undermine the confidence of forum users throughout UK, Europe, the world.
If you want to build forums and other on-line communities then avoid this kind of modification completely. This is the kind of thing which gets approval in China or other highly regulatory jurisdictions.
You do realize it's a free mod and completely voluntary? You do also realize that all the plugin does is give you a quicker way of looking at PMs that you can already look at via the database? This mod does nothing illegal and nobody that installs it is doing anything illegal. I've done a lot of research on these things, as have many people here, and there is no more liability involved with having a "database viewer" such as this and actually looking at the database - the content is still the same and this is no different than phpmyadmin.
Now I live in the US so things might be a little different but the laws here are pretty clear that it's usually about what you collect and how you collect it, not how you view it.
From diim (userid 679)
To a:1:{s:2:"cc";a:1:{i:513502;s:9:"hitman666";}}
Date 05.02.2008 22:20
Title Ответ: Предложение
Message Такая тема уже существует в разделе о форуме и сайте
From diim (userid 679)
To a:1:{s:2:"cc";a:1:{i:513502;s:9:"hitman666";}}
Date 05.02.2008 22:20
Title Ответ: Предложение
Message Такая тема уже существует в разделе о форуме и сайте
How to correct?
This has been asked before - I don't think there is a way to 'correct' it, as it isn't really a "bug". You can still see the user's name.
From diim (userid 679)
To a:1:{s:2:"cc";a:1:{i:513502;s:9:"hitman666";}}
Date 05.02.2008 22:20
Title Ответ: Предложение
Message Такая тема уже существует в разделе о форуме и сайте
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01-23-2008, 06:00 PM
