mn proposal to delete pms after 60 days

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/3245272-MNHQ-here-Mumsnet-s-approach-to-data-protection-and-GDPR

Just in case you've not seen it, mn are proposing to delete pms are 60 days. They are waiting to see what feedback they get - either way - before they decide to do it or not.

It's quite a change, so thought people might appreciate a heads up if it's something they feel strongly about.

@JaneyEJones

You're not the poo troll are you *@DawnMumsnet*?

How funny mods having civilian accounts. Not sure I could go to work and forget all the annoying arses complaining about everything, I'd be finding spurious reasons for breaking TG's and zapping them .

Busted.

Seriously, though. Not sure that we all do - I joined years and years ago when my first DC was starting school (he's finished school now, so it's been a fair while). Hardly ever get to post these days but have tapped in every now and then over the years - it's a hard habit to break. Back then I'd have been asking about mastitis, nowadays it's more likely to be the menopause... Where did all those years go?!

@DawnMumsnet I'm now fascinated by whether you've ever found yourself sockpuppeting on your own threads or found yourself having a post deleted and in receipt of a stern email from MNHQ.

With regard to the question I'd rather keep my PMs.

I would rather keep PMs too. As a regular name-changer the PM functionality is vital to ensure communication with individual MNers makes sense. PMs should be like email - up to us to store as long as we like or delete. It would be fine to impose a mailbox size if it's a storage issue.

My pms go back years....they're a timeline of my MN usage. I wouldn't want to lose that

mn posted on the other thread that they won't be deleting pms. Hurrah!