History of Slauth Where it came from

• Slauth was a behind-the-scenes part of the amateur space race

• not publishing a URL doesn’t keep it private from spyware

• originally used by Stratofox in 2004 to handle a private wiki for planning its support of two amateur space launch efforts

• problem was the groups wanted to make their own announcements and keep pre-launch details confidential

• users always have problems when you add passwords to any web site – some won’t report problems but just stop using it

• but combining with a wiki allows many more users to update the web site when anyone asks for help on a mail list