How did Alice find Bob's e-mail address when she got an e-mail account for the first time?
-- Joe Hildebrand > -----Original Message----- > From: Dougal Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 11:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Bart van Bragt wrote: > > > [....] > > > > There are already some online indicators available. The > problem with > > these indicators is that most of them work on a site basis. So you > > need one bot/agent in your roster for every site where you want to > > display your presence. > > This reminds me of a discussion I had recently about Jabber. > One of the things that came up was that a "weakness" of the > decentralized nature of Jabber is that there is no central > method for locating other Jabber users. > > Let's say that you convince somebody to switch from some > other messenger to Jabber. She sets up a jid "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". > Then she says "I wonder if my old friend Bob is on Jabber?" > She does a JUD search, but doesn't find Bob. Unbeknownst to > Alice, Bob *does* have a Jabber account ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]"). But > since the JUDs don't talk to each other, she has no easy way > to find it, unless she contacts him by other means and asks him. > > Has anyone thought about creating a centralized user > directory? There could be an optional s2s component for the > server implementations, and perhaps a direct c2s protocol > that clients could implement, as well. > > If such a project were started, it would be a good idea to > fold presence into it as well. > > -- > Ernest MacDougal Campbell III, MCP+I, MCSE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://dougal.gunters.org/ http://spam.gunters.org/ > Web Design & Development: http://www.mentalcollective.com/ > This message is guaranteed to be 100% eror frea! > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
