good for catching spies!!

Mail access is a new option for crew leaders to have witch can be made with the approval of the RHM and the LHM

It goes like so:

A request is made from the CL to his RH and his LH were they will have the option to approve or disapprove it so if they approve it then the CL will have full access to the person in question (who's name was given in the request).

any thoughts?

let me rephrase the topic... to Mail interseption not access which means the CL can intersept the mail sent and not look into the user inbox...

I don't want to make this seem to nasty but that just isn't a good idea..

My mail is mine and I woiuldn't use mail for spying anyway. I'd be on IRC at a bare minimum.

It's just a none starter i'm afraid..

When I am discussing something with my friends,there is no one else around to listen to my conversation. IF the the CL didn't trust you enough to where he must eavesdrop on your conversation,why would they even have you in their crew.

Besides,bugs and whatnot weren't invented in the 30's,and when they were,is was usually used by the FBI.(Were bugs and all of this tech crap around in the 30's?)

gd point about the tech stuff but eavesdropping sounds good... no?

I fail to see the benefit of this... in all honesty if someone was planning something against their Cl they would probably do so in a private room on IRC or via MSN etc. Plus you can delete messages sent and recieved, so again if I were planning something i didn't want my CL to know about it would be fairly easy to cover my tracks.

Also, why would a CL need permission of his LHM and RHM to do this, surely they would need the CLs permission and not the other way around.

If you were to impliament this it would need to be something akin to the tips whereby a CL can pay 5 or 10k to a snitch to get a mail - representing a snipet of a overheard conversation, but it would have to be a random mail, as the snitch would not be able to hear every single conversation his target had.

Hate to put a dampner on your suggestion though, just my opinion.

A comment on the snitch suggestion. Mail is private. How would you feel if you were discussing a very personal situation and it became public through this feature? This being a community means people have formed bonds and do discuss their lives with their friends. Good and bad times. How do you think someone would feel if their e-sexual exploits became public knowledge because their boss bought the mail?

I do not agree with the original suggestion either.. For the same reasons.

I don't think I can support this idea.

The fact of the matter is, mail is private, and to have this option available would simply jeopardize the integrity of the game. The trust of the user database would be completely lost in a heartbeat. A crewleader cannot survive without his/her members, and that relationship cannot function without the formation of a mutual trust. A feature like this would obliterate that trust and cause nothing but paranoia in its members.

Like tiggy said, sometimes we discuss some personal things in our mail, much of which isn't even MR-related. How would you feel if that was leaked out? Not only would it destroy the RP aspect of your character, but seems unnecessarily cruel.

Sorry buddy, I just don't see how this feature will help members more than it will hurt them.