How "private" should private messages be?

[Michelangelo]

jb,

I will "honor" the privacy of the honorable men that send me PM's. The snakes that use PM's for hidden agendas that are different from their "public" posts, will not be afforded such "honor".

KenC

Dear Ken,

Since you do not like PMs, I'll post this to you here, instead.

In the interest of clear and correct communication of your messages, I'll mention a grammatical error I noticed you consistently make.

In the post above, the ending of the last sentence, which you punctuated as "honor."
should be written as
"honor."

The punctuation goes inside the quote mark.  If you don't believe me, check any style manual or any book published in American.  Yes, in Australia and England your punctuation would be correct.

I guess I am on topic with this posting since I started with a reference to PMs

[Rvrwind]

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Which also has merit. Like I said earlier I would have to consider my desicion before making it. It would deffinitly not be an easy decision for me to make.

RVR

Canadian Cowboy

[Michelangelo]

Michael wrote: I guess in Canada the English word PRIVATE means something different than it does in England or America...

To me, private means personal and not meant to be shared...

We have the board to post things for everyone to see. PM means that the message is specific and JUST for the person you want to talk to... PRIVATE

And if the message is unwanted? And the message is just a way to keep the sender's nasty image hidden?

KenC[/size][/font]
[/quote]I think I would just ignore it, Ken.

I see that you and I have different views and definitions of a number of things, such as the meaning of the word "chemistry" we discussed last week. That's ok

In my view, PMs should not be posted or mentioned in a post, since they are by definition "private."

For example, I wrote a PM to a guy at RWD to share something about intimacy with a girl.  I wrote it as a PM because I did not want the world to see it.  Then, two days later, the guy referenced the PM on this board.  I don't think that was appropriate.

I don't enjoy readers trading insults in public on RWD, so I'd prefer they keep their attacks to themselves, in PRIVATE.

[Michelangelo]

Micheal, Dewd, lighten up. Iwas just jokin' & you should have bee able to decypher that from my earlier posts on this topic.

Thanks.  Your point is made and I understanding you were just joking  Thank goodness  We do need more humor