Slightly Related: Re: [JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[Jay Curry]

I agree that this is a client issue, but with that there may be exchanges between 
clients involved, say my anyJab client on Windows, Linux, Cell phone, and PDA. It 
would be nice if the user could set up a set of responses that would then propigate 
to any client in use. That would require storage of the list of responses on the 
server, or the anyJab clients being able to recongize other instances of itself on 
other platforms and directly sharing the list (again a client issue, not a server 
issue.)

I would suggest that such a list be a pull down menu, or set of buttons on the 
client interface, that is user programable, with a short list of default buttons. 
The defaut buttons would be something like Yes/No, Tell me more, Call Me. 

A client could also be programmed with direct responses based upon user presence. 
So if my presense is "extended away", a friend might get a response "Sorry, when I 
get back, I will reply." A family member might get "I am forwarding this to my 
pager." and the message gets sent to a pager, other IM client, or Cell phone/pda.

Then again, you could build an admin bot for a server that users advise what 
thresholds to do what activities with. The admin bot could collect messages into a 
single digest for when you return, prioritizing the messages by a combination of 
urgency and timestamp, or timestamp and originator, or some other user defined rule 
set.

Admin might not be a good name for this bot, as some people would confuse it with a 
jabber administrator. Secretary-bot might be better, Bot-Assistant, perhaps even 
better.

One thing that would be nice to see with this would be the ability of that bot to e-
mail you the digest list if you are off line for more than some arbitrary lenght of 
time.

Wishfull thinking I suppose....

-Rusty

Duncan Shannon (duncan at premiertechcorps.com) wrote: 
>
>This is related vaguely to emoticons.  It is also a client issue, but I
>figured it was worth a post.
>
>We are implementing jabber for our company, and some others and a
>somewhat frequently requested feature has been a 'hot key' or quick
>response capability.
>
>When someone is busy, (perhaps on the phone) and gets a IM from someone
>that needs a response (maybe line 4 is for you, or are you coming to the
>meeting...) the person would like be-able to have some pre-programmed
>responses that could be F-key functions, or key strokes, or perhaps from
>a menu like some clients implement emoticons.
>
>Responses could be along the line of:
>
>* Yes/OK
>* No
>* Take A Message
>* Ill Call Back
>* COme In
>* Hold / Wait
>* Be right there
>* Call Me
>
>
>Any opinions or thoughts?
>
>Duncan
>
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