On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 08:18 -0500, Max Shinn wrote: > This leads one to question the scope of GNU Social. Just because Facebook > provides something doesn't mean GNU Social MUST have it. For instance, > personal messaging. If you want to send private personal messages, use > email and GPG; DON'T send that information through a web service so that > your data can sit on who knows what server. Encrypting that information > before sending it through the server, and making the user download it > before decrypting ruins the whole point of going through GNU Social in the > first place. What if you don't know the other user's email address? (In case user IDs are not email addresses... but even then, you may only know/remember a nickname)
-- S.
