[OSM-talk] Make Messaging public, or other changes?

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     I'd like to ask for a quick show of hands on the idea of making the
> whole built-in OSM messaging system public (not retroactively of course,
> but change it so that anyone can ready any message written in the future).
>
> I am not sure whether this is a good idea myself, that's why I ask. The
> rationale behind this is the following: We suspect that there is quite a
> bit of "new user intimidation" going on here in Germany, where people
> sometimes almost obsessively "protect" their area against changes and
> might, sometimes rather impolitely, challenge newcomers.

A halfway option? Show that user X sent a message to user Y but don't
reveal the content?

It would at least give you some kind of handle on it, if it's a problem.

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/