On Aug 14, 2012, at 8:57 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. The more I think about it, the more I think I that this XEP is a bad idea. Basically, the kind of user confusion I illustrated in by prior post can really only be addressed if this extension is mandatory to implement (for all clients). And, I don't think extensions should be mandatory to implement. They should be truly optional. -- Kurt
