[JDEV] Transferring from jabber.com to jabber.org

[Bron Gondwana]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 01:59:14PM -0500, Thomas Charron wrote:
> Quoting "Paul L. McNeely" <drderail at i.am>:
> > What if after the transfer jabber notified each contact that the contact
> > moved. I mean an automated message telling a person that a person has moved
> > their contact point should suffice. If not possibly give them the option to
> > have themselves be removed. Or perhaps there is a way for a jabber server
> > to
> > link to the other server and use the server as a proxy of sorts temporarily
> > sending the contact list to the other server?
> 
>   Then you provide a way to globally hijack your ID, and move it somewhere 
> else.  It'd be like coming home one day, to find your house is *NO LONGER 
> THERE*, with no signs as to where it went..  ;-P

More to the point, what if two people who were both on each other's contact
lists decided to move at the same time.

It seems to me that a better approach is something like the .forward file
under Unix - have a way to set forwarding on your old server for a period
of time, and then once you've had time to propagate your new address to
everyone you care to know, remove the old account.

-- 
Bron ( and don't anybody _dare_ suggest a locking protocol on address changes )