Hello, I think the problem of a muc derived use is about all the stuffs that many people don't care of, or don't understand. When you go to a muc, you must choose a muc server explicitely (even though it is the server where you are already hosted) and you are proposed to chose a nickname for instance, or whether you want to show your jid, or else being anonymous, etc.
In a basic multi-user discussion, people just want to speak with several people. They don't want to be proposed to have another nickname than the one they already have, they don't care about being anonymous (because anyway in such case, they discuss about known people, even probably people in their roster) and they don't want to have to find a server which propose such a muc service (because they don't understand what means muc, and what is a server). For instance I may just be discussing with a friend, and I see another common friend connecting. So I say "eh let's invite Jo to speak with us", I click the button "invite someone in this discussion", and now he simply can speak with us. So of course, you could do this with a client implementation using muc: it would check on your local server whether a muc service exists, create a private muc, don't ask to hide your jid or to choose a nickname, don't ask a room title, make it private, etc. But I think this is complicated compared to a system of multi-recipient. You simply send a message with several recipients. And a conversation <thread> element (cf. 4.5 of rfc3921) is welcome to follow this specific discussion (enabling then to distinguish several discussions opened with the same user for instance). So it would give something like: Code: -------------------- <message to='[EMAIL PROTECTED]/orchard,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/balcony' from='[EMAIL PROTECTED]' type='chat' xml:lang='en'> <body>Hello Romeo, hello Juliet. How are you?</body> <thread>e0ffe42b28561960c6b12b944a092794b9683a38</thread> </message> -------------------- I would say that if you don't specify a thread, then this would be only a message sent to several people, but independently (they won't know all the recipients). What do you think of this? Jehan -- Jehan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jehan's Profile: http://www.jabberforum.org/member.php?userid=16911 View this thread: http://www.jabberforum.org/showthread.php?t=302 _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list FAQ: http://www.jabber.org/discussion-lists/jdev-faq Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________