bear wrote:
For this to be federated it has to *not* guess at the short form,
I don't agree. If I'm on identi.ca and I subscribe to someone nicknamed
"john", then if I send a message to "@john", it's 99% percent certain
which john I'm talking to. Forcing users to enter the full address for
their friends and colleagues, or people on their own servers, is
wasteful of their time and effort.
The problem with guessing comes when the message travels to another
server, and /that/ server tries to guess who the message is addressed
to. Say, if mary on bleeper.de is subscribed to my messages, bleeper.de
doesn't have adequate information to determine who I mean by "john".
That's why OMB 0.2 is going to include a) rendered HTML of messages (so
remote servers don't have to make links to addressees themselves) and b)
a list of addressees. It will make these conversations work a little better.
-Evan
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