On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 23:36 -0700, Garret Buell wrote:
>
> Public notices are the type that show up on the public timeline, where
> private notices would only show on the "Home" or "Inbox" view for the
> sender and receiver (i.e. http://identi.ca/garretbuell/all).
>
> Actually, I think we'd want "direct messages" to appear on a different tab,
> and not get mixed into the home page at all.

I'd make it a preference, and add a prominent style for private
messages in the user's "home" list.

>
> Otherwise, this seems like a quick-and-easy way to do groups.
>
> I have another use case, which is for personal groups, which I'd implement
> with tags. For example, I would label @stav and @majnoona and @amitajune as
> "#family", and then I could make notices to the attention of my family using
> @#family and private notices by "d #family".

+1

>
> This is different from Garrett's idea, and has a different purpose. It's
> just to help me manage my own subscriber groups.
>
> -Evan
>
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