Kevin Smith wrote:
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> From: Peter Saint-Andre
> 
>> Did you mean to send this to the list? :)
> 
> Yes, yes I did.

Sorry, Kevin and I seem to have duelling mail settings so that when he
replies to my list posts, the mail goes to me and not to the list...

> Kevin Smith wrote:
>>>> Perhaps someone could talk me through this one, please? The
>>>> pep/message mix seems a bit peculiar to me, particularly as it seems
>>>> to miss out on the usual 'bleg' benefit of seeing others' replies etc.
>>>> It seems at the moment as if one might just as well send a message to
>>>> their roster, and wait for a reply.
>>> Do you really want to send a message to everyone in your roster? What if
>>> they aren't interested in your blegs? PEP enables us to filter.
>> No, but what I was meaning was that you don't gain anything from this
>> xep, apart from that filtering - it's not clear to me really what the
>> motivation is. To look at it another way, how do people want this to
>> appear in a client? Then we can check the protocol to what the
>> imagined users of the feature need.

I think Qian's idea is that you may want to put out a call for help to
the people in your roster (or potentially beyond, depending on the
configuration of the PEP node). You may not have a blog and you may not
want to use a service like Qunu, but instead tap into the expertise of
your buddies (and interested others).

>>> Now,
>>> whether the answers should be public is another matter. That is the
>>> usual custom on blogs (if people provide an answer in the comments), but
>>> people *could* poke a blogger privately via email or IM instead of in
>>> the comments.
>> Well, for my imagined use of this, it seems closest to a blog, and the
>> majority of blog comments are public. Now, there's a couple of ways
>> this could go, either some pubsub/pep system with people posting to
>> it, but what a blog comment list most closely resembles is probably a
>> muc...

Perhaps I confused things by calling it "bleg". Qian called it "Q-and-A"
before I changed the name to be more edgy.

>> I'm inclined to hold off on this one until we can get it a little more
>> fleshed out (comments from Qian Sun are needed especially, I guess).

Yes, it would be helpful for Qian to comment.

Peter

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