Re: Crazy idea?

2017-04-10 Thread David Woolley
On 10/04/17 14:13, David Balažic wrote: Cut out the middleman, design a decentralised service, lose a possible point of failure. ;-) Decentralisation can be a problem. SMTP mail is designed to be decentralised, but anyone attempting to use it in that way, these days, is likely to fall foul

RE: Crazy idea?

2017-04-10 Thread David Balažic
Cut out the middleman, design a decentralised service, lose a possible point of failure. ;-) > Subject: Re: Crazy idea? > > I'll address that question in its time. > > For now, though, I don't want to put the cart before the horse; addressing > protocols (i.e. XMPP, SIP,

Re: Crazy idea?

2017-04-07 Thread pidgin
I'll address that question in its time. For now, though, I don't want to put the cart before the horse; addressing protocols (i.e. XMPP, SIP, OSCAR, etc.) while still talking about a service (akin to AIM, YIM, MSN, ICQ, etc.). On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 pid...@alexoren.com wrote: > First try to answer

Re: Crazy idea?

2017-04-07 Thread pidgin
First try to answer this one question: How will your service be better than XMPP (which is an open protocol with several open-source implementations)? On 07-04-2017 18:03, pid...@mail.iqk.com wrote: For years I've contemplated starting an IM service. The idea keeps coming back to mind as all

Crazy idea?

2017-04-07 Thread pidgin
For years I've contemplated starting an IM service. The idea keeps coming back to mind as all the big boys keep dropping out (or the technical equivalent of dropping out), frustrating their users (including myself). I cannot, possibly, be the first person to have this thought, right?