User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-2209134-20111013012356/@comment-1154266-20111014181423

"They don't need to be protected? Wikians should have full access to ALL past conversations."

You clearly have no idea what protection means in the MediaWiki sense. It's simply that only the permitted membergroups can edit it. You still have access to view them.