[JDEV] Jabber Advocacy

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>From: "-= COBNET =-" <cobnet at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: jdev at jabber.org
>To: jdev at jabber.org
>Subject: Re: [JDEV] Jabber Advocacy
>Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 21:37:07 +0100
>
>>From: Brian Lalor <blalor+sender+9db369 at ithacabands.org>
>>Reply-To: jdev at jabber.org
>>To: jdev at jabber.org
>>Subject: Re: [JDEV] Jabber Advocacy
>>Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:27:22 -0700 (MST)
>>
>>On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Julian Missig wrote:
>>
>> > >>Can we get SourceForge to run a Jabber server for all their users
>>(384K).
>> > >>That would be a good way to attract them.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > That's an excellent suggestion.  Anyone know how we would go about
>> > > suggesting this to the SourceForge guys?
>> > >
>> >
>> > Been there, done that. The whole thing fell through.
>>
>>Why?  Maybe if we, as the SF user community, clamor for it enough, they'll
>>come through?  I'm of course suggesting we clamor politely, not /.-style.
>>:-)
>>
>>--
>>Brian Lalor
>>blalor at ithacabands.org
>>
>
>Maybe you could ask sourceforge first to have a poll at their homepage, so
>they really now if the SF user community wants it. Of course, the problem 
>is
>that a lot of people don't realise the importance of Jabber! Luckily the
>people who do realise it, realise this enough, so like html was (and of
>course is!) for the web, Jabber will be to irl communication! So if you
>could get sourceforge.net so far to post a poll, maybe sb. could write a
>real short text to explain the importance of gabber (it should be really
>short or people want read it). I already tried it a little bit at
>http://www.student.rug.ac.be/astrid/Internet/jabber.php , but for the 
>moment
>it is only available in Dutch. If sb. knows dutch and he likes it, I want 
>to
>translate it in English if you want!
>
>Mattias Campe
>
>

Wauw, a reply to my own message ;-). I think that we could be able to 
convince people of moving to Jabber, but the problem is that I haven't saw a 
client yet who could compete with the functionality like e.g. ICQ has. Of 
course, ICQ is really over over featured, but still I miss features like 
"sending one message to multiple users" "good working file transfer (I'm 
behind vpn and I must say that a big file transfer usually fails)" "multiple 
file transfer" "resumable file transfer" in the currently available client. 
The thing I hate about ICQ now is that file sharing thing: it gives people 
access to your files but you don't know who or what is actually downloading.

That's why I'm still waiting for a full featured client! I hope that exodus 
(http://exodus.sourceforge.net) gets that far: I tried Winjab (predessor of 
exodus) and I liked its look and feel a lot!  And it looks that there is 
good working on it (on exodus). I would like to help the developer of 
exodus, but I don't have the knowledge (yet ;-)).



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