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[Lynne]

I think what you are saying is you want some text to be input by the user and only some users, ones that you specify, will be able to see it?

I think the easiest way to do this would be to add another text box to the Reply/Post area, and add another column to the post table for that content and do conditionals around that text when you spit it out into the postbit. Not hard, but not real simple either.