-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/14/12 9:51 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > On 8/13/12 3:03 PM, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: >> Kurt Zeilenga: >>> From a user perspective, often what I want to correct isn't >>> the last stanza I sent. > >> I support that argument. Several Social Networking Services >> provide similar features and I expect XMPP to also support that. > > <rant>Look, folks, if we want the ability to reach back and edit > everything under the sun, then by all means let's define that > using pubsub under something like XEP-0277. IM, by contrast, is an > ever-flowing stream and sometimes you make mistakes when typing > such messages (as people do in email messages to lists like this > one). Do you have the ability to edit every email message you've > ever sent? No, so just get over it.</rant>
In fact, I'd argue that this spec is a technical solution to a social problem, and thus is wrongheaded. It's easy enough to send a new message correcting the old one (e.g., "sorry, I meant to say Y instead of X" or "s/X/Y/"). People do that all the time. Magically and invisibly changing a message after the fact strikes me as a really bad idea. Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlAqdXEACgkQNL8k5A2w/vxNAgCguIGgTZYYLeXFm/TkGPPkonQM YFcAniN5KfWX2x9uY3jbasHs8+WDW9pT =xURZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
