# Managing high number of private messages

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-high-number-of-private-messages/73218>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** planned\
**Created:** [November 1, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-high-number-of-private-messages/73218 "2017-11-01T15:13:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-high-number-of-private-messages/73218/5 "2017-11-01T18:35:14Z")

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> [@Overgrow](#):
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> BTW is there any reason not to allow deleting of PMs? On our site they used probably more than public topics. I mean that could be some burden on the database. I’d really like to prune old PMs after say 3 years.

Paper trails.

There isn’t really anything stopping you from deleting them from the database.

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