[JDEV] distributed messaging

[Iain Shigeoka]

On 1/14/02 7:05 AM, "John Reinke" <John.M.Reinke at mail.sprint.com> wrote:

> I was once told that groups could be created for distributed messaging,
> but I've not found a way to set them up, or a client that appears to
> support them. (I think I found something on the jabber.org web site a
> while ago, but can't find it back.) The closest thing for the clients is
> to send a list of users to someone else.
> 
> For example, if there are two groups of jabber users that work in two
> separate departments of a company (groups ABC and DEF), I'd like to be
> able to send a message to ABC or DEF, and it will go to all the members
> of the respective group. Even if I could select multiple recipients, I
> wouldn't want to select all their usernames each time I send a message
> to everyone in a group.

This happens automatically for presence.  So if all you need to do is send
some short message, you could use presence (just setup a "status user" and
set their presence message to whatever the message it is that you want to
propagate).  This is useful if you only want to alert people to check their
emails or go to a meeting or something like that.

Otherwise, this is something that either:

The client implements (like an email mailing group) - I don't know of a
client that does this.  This is more "email" style functionality and I don't
know of any Jabber clients that favor email-like interactions (although I've
only looked a few so there are probably some out there).

Create a groupchat group - use standard groupchat (conferences).  Setup a
group, then have everyone join it.  Any message sent to the group will get
relayed to everyone in the group.

Hope that helps...

-iain


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