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Both of those posts, when made by someone with the word Administrator under her name, serve as little more than directives. It sounds like an order.
And yet we spent a multi-page thread not long ago coming to the conclusion that Private Messages need not be kept private, and that if the recipient chooses to share them with the Boards, then that is his or her right.
In that very thread you yourself said:
And yet now you are asking the OP not to make it public, and are putting the Board’s administrative weight behind a request to keep it private. I think that’s completely inappropriate.
All you need to say in response to the OP is something like this:
Why make a point of effectively prohibiting, in this case, something that the whole board (including you) has recently determined is not, in fact, prohibited?