I got a kick out of this post by Moose but only because I've been thinking about creating a pseudo-private area on my site.

The initial idea was that I would have an area or three that would hold my rambling, cathartic posts about whatever but that wouldn't be accessible by the general public. Not that there's a huge glut of readership here, but the principle remains.

I would, however, like certain people to be able to see some or all of those areas. These are people whom I trust implicitly. These are people with whom I have no problems if they know what I'm thinking in my ugliest and darkest parts. These are people that I am glad to call friends.

Unlike Moose, however, I don't have as much interaction with them as I would like. So I was thinking that this might be a decent forum for communicating some deeper topics and maybe discussing things with them.

The hierarchical security structure around which Geeklog is built allows me to put this kind of structure in place easily, but it would require people to register as users, specifically request to be added to the security groups (which would be granted at my discretion) and login to the site if they wish to access these areas.

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