Hello.
There's an idea i want to realize at my local jabber server. It has something common with mailing-lists and IRC. There should be some groups (i.e. 'sport', 'media') with free membership: any user of this server may join any group or leave it at any time. When user 'A' sends message to a group, the message is broadcasted to all group members, but replies to this message are sent only to 'A' (that differs from mailing-lists). This should be useful (and actually was useful with local icq server) for almost-instant searching, asking questions etc.
With slightly hacked icq server the system worked this way: you write message with group name to specific virtual user. Server broadcasts the message to everyone in group, saying it's from you. So everyone else thinks it's a common message from you. Then conversation continues one-to-one.
Mailing-lists are not suitable, as they have large delays (2 minutes - too long) .
IRC channels (or jabber conferences) do not suit, as they need attention all the time.
Sending message to miltiple contacts is bad: every user will have to configure group list himself (supposing 300-400 members per group).
Is there any component or something to make this work?
I have some ideas how to do this myself, but none of them is really good, because I don't want to edit server code or make users Search-Add-Message every time they want to reply.
-- Sincerely yours, Arty [ (i): http://copi.ru/38708/ ] _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev
