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To: Edwarda who wrote (100)	4/10/2000 10:02:00 AM
From: SI Bob	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 4890

I'll put this in the proper format later. Is it possible for anyone to access a member's PMs without the member's password? Speaking as one of 2 people with the most access to the site, even I have no way of viewing PM's not written to or by me unless I have someone's loginID and password. Speaking as a programmer, it would be possible for a programmer at GNET to view PM's if they were so inclined, since they have access to the backend database. I doubt they'd have the inclination, though. The backend never communicates with the outside world. The only access the outside world can have with the backend is indirectly through the queries the website scripts send it. And security is tight enough that even I don't have access to the backend. Speaking as one of the folks who routinely tries to "break" anything new (often with more success than I want), I haven't found a way to get at anything other than what the web servers will submit to the backend. And I haven't found any way to make them give me PM info. It's the one thing I've put the most effort into trying to break. I read the message to which you were referring, and the replies to it, and can sum up an answer to that one pretty quickly as follows: Can't be done. Regards, SI Admin (Bob)