# Personal messaging question
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-messaging-question/118278
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 21, 2019, 4:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-messaging-question/118278 "2019-05-21T04:36:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Gryphon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gryphon)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2019, 4:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-messaging-question/118278/1 "2019-05-21T04:36:08Z")
We have a youth organization and we were wondering if there was functionality that would enable private messages to be copied to designated adults. Basically, we would like to have any private message sent to a youth automatically sent to their parent(s) to avoid anything being hidden from a responsible adult.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2019, 5:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-messaging-question/118278/2 "2019-05-21T17:50:37Z")
Nothing currently exists that could handle this so you’d need a plugin.
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### Author:  [@DNSTARS](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DNSTARS)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-messaging-question/118278/3 "2019-05-21T17:52:32Z")
> [@Gryphon](#):
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> Basically, we would like to have any private message sent to a youth
Was youths sending PMs out included? Because they could pick up an inappropriate conversation started off site and initiate one themselves in their own right.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-messaging-question/118278/4 "2019-05-21T18:58:20Z")
Messages can’t be actively monitored, but it’s worth emphasizing that Discourse refers to them as ‘Messages’ because they _aren’t_ private, any administrator can view the messages of **any** user. Communicating that alone might be enough to deter misbehavior.
Alternatively, if you’re concerned about the risk of abuse, Messages can be disabled sitewide by unchecking ` enable personal messages` in `/admin/settings`.
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### Author:  [@Gryphon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gryphon)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2019, 9:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-messaging-question/118278/5 "2019-05-23T09:01:51Z")
Is there some list of available plugins or would this be something that would need to be developed?
Thanks,
Rob
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### Author:  [@Gryphon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gryphon)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-messaging-question/118278/6 "2019-05-23T09:24:12Z")
It’s not so much that we are looking to monitor messages. We currently communicate with the youth through an email list forwarder. When we set up a youth, any emails sent to that youths address are also cc’d to their parents. Yes, this is For full transparency but we also find that the parent often will receive the email and remind their youth if they hadn’t responded.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-messaging-question/118278/7 "2019-05-23T17:45:52Z")
This is something that would need to be developed. 🙂
You could try posting in the #Marketplace
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### Author:  [@Gryphon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gryphon)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2019, 5:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-messaging-question/118278/8 "2019-05-23T17:59:36Z")
Thank you. I will try that.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 2:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-messaging-question/118278/9 "2022-10-11T02:58:09Z")
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 3:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-messaging-question/118278/10 "2022-10-11T03:01:16Z")