On Fri, Nov 22, 2013, at 07:29 PM, Eric Koldeweij wrote: > On 21-Nov-13 21:20, Solomon Peachy wrote: > > I have mixed feelings about this, because I'm the only user on my > > server, and only two folks on my roster aren't google-hosted. > > Frankly, without Google federation I might as well not bother. > > I second this. Many of my users have contacts within Google and I do > not wish to break connection between them.
Just to add a datapoint, I will not be doing anything to FastMail's XMPP servers to make them unable to communicate with Google. Not that I disagree with the goal of getting secure connections everywhere, but I have to consider the fact that the vast majority of my users talk to people on Google-hosted XMPP accounts. It wouldn't do anything for them to cut them off. Maybe if we were primarily an XMPP provider it'd be different, but we're not - its a secondary service at best. I don't have the time or the interest right now to be an activist. I know we're not a big provider, and not a free provider, so maybe what we do doesn't count for much, but there it is anyway. I am watching the whole process closely though. I do hope a workable solution is found! Cheers, Rob N, FastMail.
