[Xastir] Question/suggestion

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

I dunno.  This is all starting to sound like some sort of gaim to me...

gerry n5jxs

Jerry Chamberlin wrote:
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> 
> 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
>>>
>>
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>>J. Lance Cotton, KJ5O
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