Re: [JDEV] Is Jabber based on UDP?

2002-09-02 Thread Mark Wilcox
Jabber is TCP based. Mark - Original Message - From: "Eric Zhao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 11:55 AM Subject: [JDEV] Is Jabber based on UDP? > juser£¬ > > Is Jabber based on UDP or TCP? > > Eric Zhao > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2002-09-02

Re: [JDEV] JX DNS Record?

2002-08-21 Thread Mark Wilcox
Actually this what the SRV record in DNS was invented for. And I believe at least jabberd supports that for looking up Jabber servers. Mark - Original Message - From: "Paul Holman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 6:01 AM Subject: [JDEV] JX DNS

Re: [JDEV] jabberCom - but for Server

2002-08-20 Thread Mark Wilcox
If you're doing it for fun, I would definitely say help out one of the existing projects, we'll get a lot further by concentrating resources for the moment than scattering them around in a bunch of half-baked systems. If for some reason you feel absolutely compelled to do something from scratch (

Re: [JDEV] Bots and Privacy => problem?

2002-08-20 Thread Mark Wilcox
Ideally you should be able to say "here's what I want you to have from me" even if I have all of your information because you decide to share it with me. You can never be totally anonymous (and in fact the spamming problem is in fact because you CAN get away pretty good at disguising whom you are

Re: [JDEV] Slashdot article on IM Bots patent

2002-08-17 Thread Mark Wilcox
Exactly, the point of having patents in many ways is now simply as tools of corporate warfare. What I think is worse than corporations who may hold patents & then stomp on the little guys for inventing new stuff, is those who don't even do any work, but manage to get patents anyway, just so that

Re: [JDEV] EtherX - What's the protocol?

2001-05-03 Thread Mark Wilcox
Mark Zamoyta wrote: > Thanks for the replies. > > If I wanted to communicate with Jabber users via my IM server, what would be > the best way to go? I'm thinking of taking EtherX and integrating it into > my system. Would this work, and how can I get some info on EtherX's > protocol? I woul