[JDEV] Multicast support

Fri Mar 16 11:06:54 CST 2001

Isn't this what the idea behind jabber:x:envelope is supposed to be for?? At
least that was one of the uses that I saw, was to be able "CC" other people
a single message, and have the server automatically propogate them away. I
agree, it would be an ideal to for spammers and hate that aspect... but if
we could find some happy medium someplace??

Here's the docs on the jabber:x:envelope draft:
http://docs.jabber.org/draft-proto/html/envelope.html

Peter.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Smith" <dizzyd at dizzyd.com>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Multicast support

> An alternative to using TCP (or UDP) multicast would be to add
> some intelligence into the core delivery logic which would permit
> a single message to be sent to multiple people on a host..maybe
> by doing something like:
>
> <message mto='@jabber.org'>
>       <stream:maddress>dizzyd at jabber.org</stream:maddress>
>       <stream:maddress>job at jabber.org</stream:maddress>
>       <body>Hey fool!</body>
> </message>
>
> This is a nice, fairly clean way of doing multicast. Of course,
> the application generating the message would have to do the
> aggregration, but that's normal.
>
> The downside, of course, is that this would be a most excellent
> tool for spamming. :)
>
> Diz