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[Josef Svejk]

Humbly disagree, Neenny.

Any intrusion of any kind, mechanical or any other is, by definition, contrary to "private."

http://www.wordsmyth.net/cgi-bin/search.cgi?submit=Define+it%21&matchent=private&matchtype=e....

At the very least there will be a perception of a problem, by some who receive their PM quoted back to them -- edited.

No. I humbly maintain that private is private, period.

I mean anyone here messing with my private stuff is like a company such as FedEx doing it, no?

Very bad. Very very bad.

Reminds me of the bot that Brad once wrote, to remove one word posts from SI. I'm NOT kidding. Got tossed over it, with my original account there, the reason I never used it again: my one word posts were being removed, I kept reposting them, got suspended, and so on... Yeah, that bot did get retired. (g)

Some things are best left untouched -- such as privacy.

Cheers,

Svejk