Enhancement to the Journal Program
Aug. 2nd, 2010 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_selwynI am pleased to announce a new enhancement to the journals. It is now possible to communicate more privately with one or two people using your journal. Simply write 'Private Message to' followed by one or two names, and then write the rest of your entry as usual. The content of your message will be invisible to all but the intended recipients, who will be able to reply to it as they would any other journal entry.
So, for instance, if I wished to send a message to Robert and Sarah Smith, I would write 'Private Message to Robert and Sarah Smith' in the subject line. Anyone who regularly reads my journal would see that I had written a private message to the Smiths, but would be unable to read anything further.
To answer a few of the questions I have already been asked:
* You may send a private message to only two people at once, but there is no limit to the number of such messages you may write.
* If two individuals share the same name, any additional description (such as an address, a town, or a personal description) will suffice. You do not need to write out the exact name provided that no one else shares the nickname (so, 'Private Message to the Razzer' will reach Mr Lestrange unless there is another Razzer with whom we are not acquainted.)
* All regulations and policies regarding communication by owl apply to this method of communication as well.
* Muggleborns in service who are in possession of journals may use this feature, but their owner of record must always be one of the two people who may view the message.
Many thanks to our gracious and glorious Lord Protector! Any further questions may be left as replies to this entry.
So, for instance, if I wished to send a message to Robert and Sarah Smith, I would write 'Private Message to Robert and Sarah Smith' in the subject line. Anyone who regularly reads my journal would see that I had written a private message to the Smiths, but would be unable to read anything further.
To answer a few of the questions I have already been asked:
* You may send a private message to only two people at once, but there is no limit to the number of such messages you may write.
* If two individuals share the same name, any additional description (such as an address, a town, or a personal description) will suffice. You do not need to write out the exact name provided that no one else shares the nickname (so, 'Private Message to the Razzer' will reach Mr Lestrange unless there is another Razzer with whom we are not acquainted.)
* All regulations and policies regarding communication by owl apply to this method of communication as well.
* Muggleborns in service who are in possession of journals may use this feature, but their owner of record must always be one of the two people who may view the message.
Many thanks to our gracious and glorious Lord Protector! Any further questions may be left as replies to this entry.
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Date: 2010-08-03 01:49 am (UTC)And yes, I noticed that as well; he doesn't seem to care for attention, and perhaps he thought a mysterious private post might lead to too much speculation?
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Date: 2010-08-03 02:06 am (UTC)Still. I had understood that this innovation was a particular request of his - not only for his own use, but for the benefit it brings to us all - so I was surprised to find he had not yet tried it for his own satisfaction.
In any event, it will be most enlightening to see whether this reduces owl traffic and speeds communications, as Massopust's studies projected.