[JDEV] Multicast support

Fri Mar 16 11:37:14 CST 2001

One concept myself and Sue thought of a while back was to have envelope allow
forwarding of up to say, ten people. After that, you have some sort of
'messaging-list' concept, which requires subscription. I mentioned messaging
lists earlier on this thread.

-David Waite

Peter Millard wrote:

> 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
>
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