Yes. So Riyaad would need to hook a script into one of the admin addresses and send out news flashes that way. But his popup idea would need to be implemented client-side. If more Jabber clients supported message type='headline' the message delivery might be more to his liking. :)
Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre email+jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.saint-andre.com/ On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, David Sutton wrote: > Hi there, > > There is already a mechanism in place for the server admin to > broadcast a message to all connected users. If this is the kind of > thing you are interested in, the details are in the jabber.xml > configuration file. Included is an extract: > > Note that they can also send announcements to all > users of the server, or to all online users. To use > the announcement feature, you need to send raw xml and be > logged in as one of the admin users. Here is the syntax > for sending an announcement to online users: > > <message to="yourhostname/announce/online"> > <body>announcement here</body> > </message> > > Hope this helps, > > David > > --- > David Sutton > JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Riyaad Miller wrote: > > >Hi ALL > > > >I'm looking for some kind of solution to my problem here. > >Here's a scenario, assuming you have approximately 5000 users online at this very >moment, all of which are merrily chatting away. Assume there's some kinda major event >happening in the world (eg. Volcano errupting in Hawai or something ...merely an >example here). I want to be able to pull this information from my already existing >news system of sort and display the major breaking news headlines to the chatting >users in some form of popup box (if possible like the presense notification jabber >already has). Question...is there a tool that has this already, does Jabber have some >kind of configuration that already exists and lastly....Is this possible? > > > >Do tell ...very interested to know. > >Thanks in advance ... > >Regards RM > > > >_______________________________________________ > >jdev mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
