IETF jabber room histories (Re: Virtual Water Coolers)

2011-10-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-10-31 23:18, Dave Cridland wrote: That said, I think our existing chatrooms are configured not to have history - presumably to avoid confusing when they're only used for three single weeks throughout the year. Indeed. This is a major annoyance when joining a session late or

Re: IETF jabber room histories (Re: Virtual Water Coolers)

2011-10-31 Thread Dave Cridland
On Mon Oct 31 20:07:54 2011, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2011-10-31 23:18, Dave Cridland wrote: That said, I think our existing chatrooms are configured not to have history - presumably to avoid confusing when they're only used for three single weeks throughout the year. Indeed. This is

Re: IETF jabber room histories (Re: Virtual Water Coolers)

2011-10-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Scott, Yes, of course you are right. Brian On 2011-11-01 10:00, Scott O. Bradner wrote: the audio of sessions is recorded (I assume) not destroyed before the next meeting - why should the jabber record be secret (by the process of removal) - why not dump the old logs in a place that

Re: IETF jabber room histories (Re: Virtual Water Coolers)

2011-10-31 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
In XMPP chatrooms, there are two separate things: 1. Room history. This is the messages that show up in your IM client when you join the room. 2. Chat logs. These are archived to a website somewhere and live there forever. In this conversation, we're talking about room history, not chat logs.