On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Evan Prodromou <e...@status.net> wrote:

>  I'd like to make the following fine-tuning changes to !groups in 0.9.x:
>
>    1. If you mention a !group, *even if the notice is not distributed to
>    the group*, the name gets linkified as a tag.
>     2. *At the group admins' discretion*, non-members can be allowed to
>    post to a group. The default is set by the site admin. Example use case: a
>    !support group for asking for tech support on identi.ca.
>    3. At the site admin's discretion, groups can share the same (logical)
>    namespace as users. In this case, you can't have a group named "foo" *
>    and* a user named "foo".
>    4. At the site admin's discretion, "@name" will send a group message,
>    just like !group. (This will clearly work best when there's no confusion
>    whether "@name" is for a user named "name" or a group named "name" -- that
>    is, when 3 is enabled.)
>
> -Evan
>
> So item 3 is only so that item 4 will work?  Is there any other usefulness
to it?
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