"Peter Millard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jim - > > For those of us not some intimately familiar with the AIM client, perhaps > you could explain in more "jabber-ish" terms what these modes mean. Are they > "presence modes" (ie, determining who gets you presence info) or "message > modes" where you can determine who can send you messages??
I *think* they're both. I'm not much familiar with AIM clients myself. I do know that when you deny or not-allow someone, they can no longer "see" you. > > More comments inline below: Likewise :-) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Seymour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [snip] > > > > This seems to duplicate/trump/obsolete/whatever, JEP-0016, in a way? > > Not at all.. Blacklisting + Whitelisting are VERY different from invisible > mode. JEP 16 deals with how clients can control what packets the server > (jabberd) delivers to it. JEP 18 deals with how the user can control WHO can > see them online (their availability information). Ok. (I may have more thoughts on this later. I need go cogitate on it a bit.) > > > As you might imagine, I'm wondering what to think of all this. > > > > Lastly, in any event, it seems to me the client code will have to know > > what version of the server it's dealing with so it can know what is > > supported and what is not. (E.g.: 1.4.1 won't support "invisible," > > 1.4.2 does.) Is there a way to fetch the server's release level? > > Servers that do NOT support invisible mode will return a presence error. > This is pretty easy for the client to trap and then send a normal > "available" packet and notify the user that the server doesn't support > invisible mode. You can try this against any 1.4.1 or JCS install. I was thinking of just not "trying it" on servers that don't support it. Call it "bandwidth conservation" ;-). > > Hope this helps. It does. Thanks. Regards, Jim -- Jim Seymour | PGP Public Key available at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.uk.pgp.net/pgpnet/pks-commands.html http://jimsun.LinxNet.com | _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
