Hi Jason, A very valid point. My feeling is that ad hoc direct messages (to individuals or even groups) leave the platform essentially open whilst private groups being permanent fixtures do not.
I can see private groups being useful in a corporate setting but in a social networking context they might not be. Regards, Bo On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 21:35 -0600, Jason Reusch wrote: > Bo wrote: > > | The article really describes groups as a way of providing private > | communication. I have to agree with Evan (from a previous post on > | groups) that this is perhaps not consistent with an open > | communication platform like Laconica. > > If private communication is inconsistent with the platform, why allow direct > messages? Why should a group have any less privacy than a user? > > Ahoy, > Jason > _______________________________________________ > Laconica-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
