Nick Vidal wrote:
>> In what way is this system different from a mailing list system over
>> XMPP? There you have people asking and people answering. Isn't it
>> quite the same in the end?
>>
>> Tobias
>>
> 
> The biggest difference is trust and personalization. You are connected with
> friends only. Information may come from far away, but they must pass through
> your friends to reach you, and you must be subscribed to these tags (
> http://iss.im/node/11 ). Also, another important difference is that
> mailing-lists are centralized, while this is as distributed as XMPP itself.

Exactly. Whether that works better in practice remains to be seen. But I
think it has some interesting possibilities.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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