Re: Important moderation message, please read
As far as I can see, the only thing PM has going for it over email is that it's verifiably more reliable, and I've no doubt people realise that. Indeed, JMO, you should disable PMs, but only if you also disable the relay service, because that way forum members don't have to involve the forum, and there's a penalty--however small, but a penalty--to making yourself available for that kind of exchange. Course, it also completely eliminates private discussion for the privacy-conscious trying to keep their email address hidden, but now the forum isn't being used for exchanging bad stuff, which is what you're after.
Email relay is store-and-forward; the forum software passes the message on to a mail server, and then presumably deletes the request (probably never even written to the disk). However, it's just as accessible as the PM function, so I'm not sure what makes it that much different from PMs except that the message is stored in a loca
l database. The threat of counteraction to pirates would be a lot more credible, IMO, if every email address were indeed revealed publicly. I've no doubt this suggestion will be well-disliked.
Now, if we're honest, it might actually be doing people a favour to insist that PMs are disabled, and the email relay left running, because it would increase the general level of email reliability (a few people on this forum still have bad email addresses). So, if that's your plan, go for it, although it won't IMO change the landscape of misuse.
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