[JDEV] Negative priority

[Peter Saint-Andre]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 06:23:16PM +0100, Magnus Henoch wrote:
> XMPP IM states in section 11.3 that a resource with a negative
> priority will not receive message or presence stanzas.  What will
> happen to those stanzas instead?
>
> For example, if a client sets negative priority when the user is away,
> will it receive notification of accumulated presence changes when it
> sets a positive priority again, and similarly for messages?  Or is it
> simply a bad idea to rely on such behavior?

Those stanzas get sent to /dev/null -- if you don't like that behavior,
don't set your presence to a negative number. ;-) This functionality is
mainly for non-chat nodes, rather than normal IM clients.

Peter

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