Re: Fwd: Pingsta Invitation

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Farrel
Stephen Casner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... I don't know anything about Pingsta or its credibility. However, I am currently reading a boot... Yes, this has to be a new and innovative communication method :-) Adrian ___ Ietf mailing list

RE: Fwd: Pingsta Invitation

2007-03-26 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
be based on DNS names and RFC 822 addreses. -Original Message- From: John Levine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 11:40 AM To: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Pingsta Invitation It does appear to be a legitimate attempt at a niche social networking site

RE: Fwd: Pingsta Invitation

2007-03-26 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 26 March, 2007 11:02 -0700 Hallam-Baker, Phillip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Observation: Many IETF-ers have entries in Linked-In ... Regret: We did not get out ahead of the curve with Instant Messaging. We should have done Jabber in 1995. Depends on what you count and a whole

RE: Fwd: Pingsta Invitation

2007-03-26 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
From: John C Klensin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --On Monday, 26 March, 2007 11:02 -0700 Hallam-Baker, Phillip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Observation: Many IETF-ers have entries in Linked-In ... Regret: We did not get out ahead of the curve with Instant Messaging. We should have

RE: Fwd: Pingsta Invitation

2007-03-26 Thread Dave Cridland
On Mon Mar 26 20:15:02 2007, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: I don't quite see I18N issues the same way. I think that we can have muiltiple addresses. I think that's reasonable, too. Aside from anything else, for many people, their email address is distinct from their JID in XMPP, and/or SIP

RE: Fwd: Pingsta Invitation

2007-03-26 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, John C Klensin wrote: In particular, none of [the social network tools] permit me to maintain, with a single nominal identity, different circles of acquaintances for different purposes and with different trust and influence relationships between and within each, an issue

RE: Fwd: Pingsta Invitation

2007-03-26 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 26 March, 2007 23:21 +0100 Tony Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, John C Klensin wrote: In particular, none of [the social network tools] permit me to maintain, with a single nominal identity, different circles of acquaintances for different purposes and

Re: Fwd: Pingsta Invitation

2007-03-24 Thread Jim Fenton
I did sign up some time back (careful to use a password distinct from everything else, and making sure that what little information I put there is already visible somewhere else) just to have a look. It appears to have only about 50 members so far. It does appear to be a legitimate attempt

Re: Fwd: Pingsta Invitation

2007-03-24 Thread John Levine
It does appear to be a legitimate attempt at a niche social networking site targeting networking engineers, but I'm not sure we need one. If we can't do social networking via existing communication channels like, you know, e-mail, we're pretty lousy networking engineers. Regards, John Levine,

Re: Fwd: Pingsta Invitation

2007-03-24 Thread john . loughney
message- Subject: Re: Fwd: Pingsta Invitation From: John Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03/24/2007 8:54 am It does appear to be a legitimate attempt at a niche social networking site targeting networking engineers, but I'm not sure we need one. If we can't do social networking via existing

Re: Fwd: Pingsta Invitation

2007-03-24 Thread Stephen Casner
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Fred Baker wrote: Does anyone know who this is or what it is about? I don't know anything about Pingsta or its credibility. However, I am currently reading a boot titled Mavericks at Work which talks, in part, about open-source methods being applied to areas of business