> Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 17 2003 at 06:32:00PM BRT, Dougal Campbell >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Joe Hildebrand wrote: >>> >>> >>>>How did Alice find Bob's e-mail address when she got an e-mail account >>>> for >>>>the first time? >>> >>>Who says that she did? Maybe she hasn't found his email either. Maybe >>>she hasn't seen Bob since they graduated from high school, doesn't even >>>know what city he lives in, and has no clue about how to find him. But >>>if they both use Jabber, wouldn't it be nice for there to be some easier >>>way for them to track each other down? >> >> >> You're assuming Bob wants to be found :) >> >> Seriously, though, I think that would be nice *if* Bob agrees to >> have his jid put in a central directory. I'd hate to start receiving >> spam >> via jabber as well... > > Just out of interest, which communications model do people feel best > applies to Jabber? > > (a) ICQ model: Centralized server, compulsory public directory listing > (easy to search for people, interests, etc. in directory) > > OR > > (b) email model: Distributed, interoperable servers (no standard public > directory listing, but people can opt to list their addresses in various > private listings) > > There seems to be some conflict between what people expect Jabber to be > and to do... > > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > I must go with B (email modal) to be able to run your on server is one of the key features of jabber. And the way the server communicate with each other, closly looks like e-mail.
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