[JDEV] distributed messaging

[John Reinke]

On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 01:05, joe at cursive.net wrote:
> Iain Shigeoka <iainshigeoka at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > On 1/14/02 7:05 AM, "John Reinke" <John.M.Reinke at mail.sprint.com> wrote:
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> > 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).
> 
> I'm not sure what the semantics would be in this case.  Where do
> replies come? 

For my purpose, it would be more like the "reply" than the "reply to
all" feature in some email clients. I only need to send a notification
to a group. If someone needs to reply, it would only need to go back to
the originator of the message - me.

> > 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.
> 
> Setting up an anonymous, or randomly-named, group seems like a pretty
> good fit for expectations.  JIM allows the creation of "instant
> rooms", and you can invite an entire roster group at once.
> 
> Right-click on the group, Invite To Room/Create Instant Room.

Thanks for the tip. I not only could invite a group, I can make them
part of a conference room template as well. This may provide a usefull
alternate.

John