[Xastir] Question/suggestion

[J. Lance Cotton]

I've used Jabber in the past, when they were just getting jabberd 1.0 
ready for release. I tried setting up a jabber server on my system, but 
getting transports to work at all was a problem for me. Granted that was 
a long time ago and last I heard they had a much better way to do 
transport installs.

But what would this require for msging for Xastir? Would each Xastir 
user have to run jabberd? The simplicity of a jabber client depends on 
the concept of the client only connecting to a jabber server and then 
the *server* is what connects to all the various other IM systems for 
interoperability.

The idea of having each Xastir user running a jabber server is not very 
appealing to me. Likewise, having a central jabber server for Xastir 
users kind of makes an internet connection a requirement and is not a 
good thing.

Now, since the jabberd server is open source, and so are many clients, 
we could incorporate some of their code into some decent msg interface 
code as well as a way to communicate with 'the central xastir database' 
which would incorporate some jabberd code to accept connections. Forget 
all the 'Jabber Transport' module stuff.

73 KJ5O
Lance Cotton

Ken Koster wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 August 2002 19:36, Dick Reichenbach wrote:
> ...
> 
>>Another component not mentioned yet is messaging.  Using the built in
>>messaging features is pretty crude way of doing it.  Tying the central
>>database into an IRC server application makes more sence, if you could
>>secure it.
> 
> 
> Now there's an idea.  I was thinking of a simple stand-alone messaging app.
> Instead, I think a jabber (http://www.jabbercentral.org) transport is in 
> order.
> 
> For those that don't know about jabber, it's an open-source instant messaging
> protocol with distributed servers.  The protocol has been submitted as a
> potential internet standard.  The server software includes transports that 
> link it to users on ICQ,IRC,MSN,AIM etc.    I run a jabber server on our
> WETNET (http://wetnet.net) system with AIM and ICQ transports.  If any
> of you use a jabber compatible client, you're welcome to register with
> jabber.wetnet.net.
> 
> Ken,  N7IPB
> JID: n7ipb at jabber.wetnet.net
> 
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