[JDEV] Requesting presence of User not in Roster

[Mark Lynch]

Hi,

Is there anyway of requesting the presence of a user that is not in your
roster? I'm trying to get some community stuff going using Jabber and would
prefer to keep using my own DB rather than a JUD. The way I see it I would
have to maintain a huge roster of all my users to be able to query all their
presence's, which isn't something I'd like to do. 

Am I missing something? 

If it's not possible does anyone else see it as something useful to be able
to do?

All help appreciated!
Mark