Replies to post #202367 on The Question and Answer Board (IHUB)

[Porgie Tirebiter]

Private messages can't be "removed" (actually no message is ever actually "removed", they're only hidden). PMs are removed from your mailbox by archiving or filing.

Public messages can be "removed" from your mailbox but that does not remove them from the public message boards where they originally appeared. They can also be filed.

I'm thinking it's always been that way.

[IH Admin [Shelly]]

I think the terminology was "Remove" (but may have been "Delete") and, yes, it was recently changed to "Archive".

People often thought it they "Removed" or "Deleted" it, it would be gone forever. So we changed it to "Archive" to maybe make it more intuitive that it will still be available to them if they wanted to look at it at a later date.