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  • (Score: 2) by Open4D on Wednesday March 05 2014, @06:42AM

    by Open4D (371) on Wednesday March 05 2014, @06:42AM (#11255) Journal

    If any editor wants me for that purpose, get in touch.

    Incidentally, is there any easy way for 2 SN users to make contact with each other with a degree of privacy? The messaging system [dev.soylentnews.org] only seems to support messages from the system to the user. Ideally I don't want to post my email address in a public comment / journal entry.

    N.B. I said "easy", because I wanted to pre-empt any suggestions that I could encrypt my email address with my recipient's public key and then I would be able to post it publicly. :-) I'm thinking more along the lines of a new type of message in the messaging system: "User Example66 has shared his/her verified email address with you and asks that you make contact: example66rulez@example.com"

    P.S. Sorry for being off topic.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Foobar Bazbot on Thursday March 06 2014, @12:36AM

    by Foobar Bazbot (37) on Thursday March 06 2014, @12:36AM (#11747)

    Note that IRC supports private messaging, and there's some effort towards linking IRC authentication to slash authentication in some way. Once you have the ability to know that "example66" on IRC is the same person as "Example66" on slash, you could have a link on Example66's public profile page that would open the web-based IRC client directly into a PM to example66.

    Of course, making this work asynchronously (i.e. if the recipient is not online) requires a bot to save the message, and deliver it next time they log in. Then to ensure they'd know to login to IRC and receive the message, you'd need... a new type of message in the messaging system. So this may not be simpler, but it does provide general private communications (vs. just sending an email address) without implementing yet-another-pm-system inside the slash messaging system. Maybe the right answer is both...