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On Aug 15, 2012, at 08:54, Kurt Zeilenga wrote:

> 
> On Aug 15, 2012, at 7:28 AM, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> In fact, I'd argue that this spec is a technical solution to a social
>>> problem
>> 
>> I note, after drafting many more acerbic replies, that this is
>> consistent with all specs.
>> 
>> Messaging is a social problem.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> My concern is how effective our solution is in solving the social problem, 
> messaging between humans.
> 
> XMPP IM (without 308) has demonstrated itself to be an effective solution.  
> XMPP IM with 308 implemented universally would also likely an effective 
> solution.
> 
> It seems to me that XMPP IM, with some clients supporting 308 and some not, 
> will be less effective than either of the above solutions, simply because key 
> information (this message is a correction) is lost on fallback in clients not 
> supporting 308.
> 

I do not completely agree that key information will (always) be lost.  It does 
indeed matter significantly how a client renders corrected text:

1) delete of old, overwrite with new (lost information)
2) strikethrough of old, place new immediately next to it (no lost information)

And there's a couple of other ways I can see this going...


- - m&m

Matthew A. Miller
<http://goo.gl/LK55L>

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