Feature Request: Message Static Neighbors

[Tsangares]

Description

It would be nice if there was a non-invasive way that I could send messages to the neighbors connected to my node. I think with auto-peering that would be invasive but some of my peers are my friends.

Motivation

We are already sending each-other millions of messages. It seems straight-forward to be able to send some basic text to neighbors. Maybe to keep away from ddos or db bloat the message are deleted after 100. A simple way to communicate to fixed nodes would help build a community around the recreational node operators. The node-desktop is beautiful, its an enjoyable experience setting up a node. Playing with the dashboard is fun and this is a moderate feature that could have a decent impact.

Requirements

Write a list of what you want this feature to do.

1. When I click on my static neighbors have an option at the bottom of the page to essentially, "add a comment."
2. When I add a comment, either through tcp or an IOTA transaction, the message would show up and be stored on my neighbors rocksdb.
3. Bi-direction communication for static neighbors
4. Not a feature for auto-peering because that's invasive.

Open questions (optional)

Worried are about database bloat and possibly and invasion of privacy. So maybe have this option to be disabled.

Are you planning to do it yourself in a pull request?

No, I wouldn't know where to start.