David Woolley wrote:
> On 09/11/17 16:18, Richard Hector wrote:
> > If my phone company in New Zealand goes away, that doesn't mean your
> > phone number in Texas is now useless - I can get a new connection from a
> > new company, and call you as before.
>
> Instant messaging systems aren't
On 09/11/17 16:18, Richard Hector wrote:
If my phone company in New Zealand goes away, that doesn't mean your
phone number in Texas is now useless - I can get a new connection from a
new company, and call you as before.
Instant messaging systems aren't interconnected in the way that phone
On 10/11/17 03:15, Rich Allcorn wrote:
> Buddy list is a list of accounts on the server. If the server goes
> off-line, those accounts go off-line, and are no longer available, until
> the server comes back up.
Except it's federated, right? I run and use my own server, but I also
have buddies
Rich Allcorn wrote:
> Buddy list is a list of accounts on the server. If the server goes
> off-line, those accounts go off-line, and are no longer available,
> until the server comes back up.
That is not entirely true. We also cache a local copy, which is in
~/.purple/blist.xml. This is the
Buddy list is a list of accounts on the server. If the server goes off-line,
those accounts go off-line, and are no longer available, until the server comes
back up.
It’s like a telephone landline account. You have your landline account through
the phone company. If the phone company goes
