We've seen a pretty strong demand that people who are not in the group should be able to broadcast to the group, but should not be able to see the broadcasts going to the group.
The use case is "I would like someone in support to answer this question, but I shouldn't be able to see the questions that others are asking." On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Dave Cridland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, and before I forget, someone also mentioned communities in jdev a while > back (perhaps the week before last), and a customer was talking abut the > desire for something fairly similar. > > I looked at the communities proto-xep, and it looks... curiously compelling, > but perhaps too complicated. I think we could actually do communities > entirely client-side, using MUC in order to both share presence bilaterally > with other community members, and also broadcast messages to the community, > in a curious and slightly microbloggery way - effectively, it's just a > different interface on MUC, rather than a different protocol on the wire. > > Is there any interest in specifying something like this, and, more > importantly, would client authors consider implementing something like this? > > Dave. > -- > Dave Cridland - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ > - http://dave.cridland.net/ > Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade > -- Joe Hildebrand
