---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Saint-Andre >Did you mean to send this to the list? :)
Yes, yes I did. 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. > >> 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... > > 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). > > /K
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