On Fri Oct 28 21:50:40 2011, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
There's a reason we use email here. It's called time zones.
Jabber doesn't work when people are spread across all time
zones.
There are forum-style mechanisms that also avoid the time zone
problem, but I've never found them as convenient as
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
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
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
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.
On Wed Oct 26 17:30:04 2011, John C Klensin wrote:
As others have pointed out, that doesn't solve the water
cooler problem. It would probably require some rethinking of
how we handle BOFs, WG creation, and other tasks.
Creating a virtual water cooler is possible - XMPP chatrooms do
provide
Cool idea. I would hang out if other people did.
+1 to using protocols other than email for ephemeral discussions such as these
:)
--Richard
On Oct 28, 2011, at 5:03 AM, Dave Cridland wrote:
On Wed Oct 26 17:30:04 2011, John C Klensin wrote:
As others have pointed out, that doesn't
On Fri Oct 28 15:48:50 2011, Richard L. Barnes wrote:
Cool idea. I would hang out if other people did.
There are 5 people in hall...@jabber.ietf.org now. Hardly a critical
mass, but it may be sufficient to count as other people, at least.
+1 to using protocols other than email for
There's a reason we use email here. It's called time zones.
Jabber doesn't work when people are spread across all time
zones.
There are forum-style mechanisms that also avoid the time zone
problem, but I've never found them as convenient as threaded
email.
Brian (Saturday morning, 10:50 a.m)
