Brenda Wallace wrote:
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".
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.)
(although migration to this new model on identi.ca will be "fun" for
whoever does the final merging)
One of the reasons we didn't use @ for the group prefix was because
there were so many accounts already on Identica. Talking it over
recently, we realized that wasn't necessarily the case for other
instances, and that @ was a very natural way to send stuff to a group.
(Compare using To: for both mailing lists and individual email accounts
with SMTP.)
I think it's unlikely we'll ever change Identi.ca over to using @ syntax
for group messages, just because there are so many conflicts. As of
right now, 1323 of the 5148 groups on Identica (~25%) have matching user
accounts. Of the 1794 group aliases, 221 have matching user accounts
(~12%). It's not insuperable, but I'd rather not bother.
-Evan
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Evan Prodromou
CEO, Control Yourself, Inc.
[email protected] - http://identi.ca/evan - +1-514-554-3826
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