[JDEV] BIG Roster in Jabber

[Thomas Muldowney]

If you make it as a component people can still subscribe to and not have
the massive broadcast issues of a real roster.  Most things that need
large amounts of users are far better suited as a component.

--temas


On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:39:05 -0300
Agustin Sanchez <AgustinS at coremation.com> wrote:

> If I'm not mistaken, whether you use pub/sub or not, the subscribed
> users have to be in the news service's roster (the jabber account used
> by the news service), so the service can receive presence info from
> the subscribers. In this case, my question still applies, as the
> roster could grow to very large proportions. 
> I've seen a few news services implemented as jabber clients. How do
> they deal with this issue?
> 
> Agustin Sanchez
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Muldowney [mailto:temas at box5.net]
> Sent: Martes, 03 de Septiembre de 2002 07:49 p.m.
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: Re: [JDEV] BIG Roster in Jabber
> 
> 
> Have you considered pub/sub for something like that?
> 
> --temas
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 17:27, Agustin Sanchez wrote:
> > Hi All: 
> > 
> > I'd like to know if it's possible to store a really big user roster
> > in a jabber server (could be as much as 5000/6000 users). This is
> > meant to have
> a
> > large distribution list send information to users who subscribe a
> > news service implemented on jabber. How about the MSN transport?
> > Does this imposes any limitation on the number of users?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > 
> > Agustin Sanchez
> > 
> 
> 
>