I'm not sure I understand what exactly you're trying to do. /whois only
gives you information about a user who's nick you already know. And not
much information for that matter. You can look up a vcard in jabber and
it will show you whatever information the user has entered about
themself. This appears analogous to IRC's whois command, but has the
potential for providing even more information. But what I thought you
were asking about was finding someone's nick knowing their name. I
don't know how you'd do this in IRC, but with jabber, if they have
registered with the JUD, then they are searchable by name or email
address. Of course you have to use a client that supports the JUD. As
for listing the rooms available on a chat server, any client supporting
service discovery or browsing should be able to list the public rooms on
a server by browsing to the conference server. In our case,
conference.jabber.trilug.org.
What I said about being connected to a room meant this: In IRC if you
meet someone in a channel and wish to converse with them directly, you
can do so. In a jabber conference room, users have aliases rather than
displaying their real jid, for privacy. But, you can still send a
private message to them while they are connected to the room, and you
have the option of exchanging your real jid through that channel. It
just offers users a little more privacy over who can talk to them directly.
Many of these features depend on using a client that supports these
features. Multi-protocol clients are notorious for leaving out
important features of jabber.
Joel
Jeff Groves wrote:
I'm not sure I follow your line of thought concerning "IRC presuming you
are already in the same channel". I know that in any (compliant) IRC
client, all I have to do is connect to the server, do a /list to see all
of the channels or do a /whois <nick> to find someone.
I have yet to find either such feature for Jabber in Trillian or Gaim.
Am I missing something? It seems that with Jabber, you just "have to
know" and it's not going to help you find it.
Jeff G.
Joel Ebel wrote:
Well, on IRC it presumes you are already in the same channel as
someone. If on jabber, you were both in a MUC room, you could send a
message to them privately without getting their JID. You can also
privately send someone your jid through MUC if you want them to know
who you really are.
Also, there is a jabber user directory. This is voluntary to register
with, but if you want to facilitate people finding you, register with
the JUD.
Joel
Jeff Groves wrote:
This is the problem that I have with Jabber in comparison to IRC.
Out of band query to find the username. Unnecessary in IRC.
John Broome wrote:
On 6/8/05, Jason Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What are you known as on jabber?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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