[Xastir] Question/suggestion
Jerry Chamberlin
jerryc at netlab.org
Thu Aug 15 08:28:28 EDT 2002
Get Everybuddy to run Everybuddy
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, J. Lance Cotton wrote:
> 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
> >
> --
> J. Lance Cotton, KJ5O
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