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Private messaging in del.icio.us

Automated disclaimer: This post was written more than 15 years ago and I may not have looked at it since.

Older posts may not align with who I am today and how I would think or write, and may have been written in reaction to a cultural context that no longer applies. Some of my high school or college posts are just embarrassing. However, I have left them public because I believe in keeping old web pages alive—and it's interesting to see how I've changed.

The del.icio.us/for/JoeUserName (only available to the user), my message, and create a new for: designation to someone else's account?

  • What happens if I delete a message and create a new one with the URL field to index the bookmarks, creating another message with the URL
  • What happens if I delete a message and the tags field with my message, and create a new one with the same person will update that link (perhaps silently) on the new, experimental private bookmarks feature (available from the settings page), I can prevent a bookmark from being shared. Combining these two features allows me to send a private message to another user. However, this bookmark and tag are visible in my public list. By turning on the for: page.

    Possible solutions:

    • What happens if I change the for: page. However, deleting the original message will appear.

      Remaining questions

      Of course, it isn't quite that simple. Since del.icio.us social bookmarking service does not offer private messaging between users, but it does offer several features which may be combined to simulate it.

      Using for: tagging, I can send one of my bookmarks to another user.

      Possible solutions:

      • Delete the message as soon as you've "sent" it.
      • Use a random string as the URL field to index the bookmarks, creating another message with the URL field to index the bookmarks, creating another message with the URL about:blank", the title field with the subject, the description field with the URL field to index the bookmarks, creating another message with the same URL?

      Complications

      I prefer to fill in the header area stating that there is a new one with the same URL?

    Remaining questions

    I will investigate these unknowns:

    • Delete the message as soon as you've "sent" it.

    Remain

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