It's possible this is just a UI problem. http://blog.jabber.com/filaments/2008/03/11/priority-1-presence/
-1 resources should be included in the probe response. On Jul 24, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Jack Moffitt wrote:
At XMPP Summit 5 this past week it became clear that lots of people are using or are planning to use presence priorities of -1 to allow specialized clients access to various XMPP resources. At Speeqe we do this so that our MUC client doesn't steal private messages. I believe that Fritzy at Seesmic said that Twhirl would soon start doing this now that they have XMPP support there for Identi.ca. This has lead me to discover some small usability problems. It looks like the spec requires that users with presence priority -1 be shown as available, but I'm not sure if I'm missing something in the spec or if it is just underspecced. http://www.xmpp.org/rfcs/rfc3921.html#presence-resp-probes says that the server must reply from all "available" resources, but it does not say how this interacts with negative presence priorities. The unwelcome side-effect of this is that if you are online only in negative priority mode you show as available to all your contacts, but you cannot receive any messages to the bare jid. This is pretty confusing for people trying to talk to you. Is this a nuisance we have to live with? Can a clarification be made here? Can the different server authors tell us what they have done in this edge case? Thoughts? jack.
