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["Stuart Langridge" <sil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 13:49 +0000, Stuart Langridge wrote:
>> I'm not really sure of the point of groups -- seems to me like
>> hashtags already do this. Have I misunderstood?
>
> Can't subscribe to a hastag, though.  You can subscribe to a group.  The
> group re-dents anything sent to it, so you get the group's updates right
> in your regular timeline.

That makes sense, yep, I get that. I just wish they'd called them
subscribeable hashtags rather than "groups", because "group" to me
leads you down the mistaken path that Jorge took (it sounds like a
planet, not like a mailing list).

> And you can't limit who sends to the group.  They said (in the
> announcement) they might eventually add a way for the admin of the group
> to vet members, but not right now.

Mm, although I note that you can't limit who *sends* to a group even
then -- there's no way of stopping someone denting "!ubuntu get
stuffed", it just won't get *republished* by the group ;-)

sil

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