On Friday 07 June 2002 12:52, you wrote: > If p2p is the One True Answer, maybe we should ditch the jabber > server altogether and just chat over gnutella.
:-)))) Maybe we should chat over jabber, but transfer our files using a file sharing application, using the applications exactly for the purpose they were originally created for??? And optimized (hopefully)? It looks a bit strange to me to use Jabber at all for file transfers. I'm reading that book "Peer-to-Peer" (O'Reilly) at the moment and also "Programming Jabber". My first impression is that though Jabber is much more than an IM client/server, it nevertheless provides and was made for IM-like functionality, which could be used - of course - by any application which needs that. Maybe sitting on top of a peer-to-peer app, creating another address space, bringing in the notion of "presence", *coordinate* file transfers (in comparison to doing them) and the like. When I think of "messaging", then I'm thinking of something lightweight almost immediately, but not of transferring huge files. I wouldn't call that "Instant Messaging" or "Messaging" any longer, but file sharing/file distribution. I have to admit though that the distinction is getting blurred the smaller the files become. A JPG might be smaller than a text I'm pasting into a message window ... > That's probably better, but the gestalt of the discussion at the > moment seems to be "server-assisted transfers are stupid," which is > why I posted in favor of server intermediation. As I said in my new posting again: IMHO, that depends on the situation and the rules to decide that aren't easy to set up. Without real tests and numbers, we're lost, I fear. Have a nice day, Marco _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
