Private Communication On Wiki

I find it interesting that WikiWikiWeb by its nature does not allow much for private communication. I was wondering if people found this to be a downfall or a good aspect of Wiki? -- ChuckSmith

Use e-mail. It works. Or WikiMail, which doesn't work quite as well.

Just about all the Wiki home pages seem to have email addresses, so email turns out to be a very viable option.

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Personally, I've found that e-mail is disdained by WikiWiki authors moreso than anywhere else. Actually, I've found that everything is disdained by WikiWiki authors moreso than anywhere else. Nonetheless, in most public situations, I use a private channel like e-mail or instant messaging or the phone or face-to-face to conduct the background business. -- SunirShah

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Of course, one could exchange secret keys, and then post encrypted messages. But people would get really annoyed at you and delete them, I think.

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(Delete leading spaces and run through "uudecode" ;-)

 $ sed 's/^ //' | uudecode