[JDEV] My evil plans for a client.

[arh14 at cornell.edu]

On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Tim Lesher wrote:

> Scott Robinson <scott at tranzoa.com> said:
> 
> > But back into reality, I'd love to make another suggestion for client fun.
> > MIME support! Messages encoded in MIME (and the clients have a rudimentery
> > (sp?) mailcap) could allow for a whole new world of kick-ass messenging.
> 
> The IETF proposal for instant messaging already calls for MIME support.
> 
> Which brings up an interesting question:  Are any Jabberites tracking the
> IETF efforts?

That is my question too.  The purpose of Jabber was so that we could stop 
being shot in the foot by proprietary lock-out.  We should, if not adopt, 
at least enable simply integration with the IETF protocol.  MIME is also 
good...it has already done all the encoding and transfer work...we can 
just fill <message>s with MIME and not care.

Aaron

> 
> > As for my 3l1t3 soon be started client... keep looking for it.
> 
> Evil?  Scott, you're quasi-evil... ( :-)
> 
> --
> Tim Lesher
> mailto:timl at epix.net