[JDEV] Webpresence revisited [Was: JabberCentral]

[Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel]

On Tue, Jun 17 2003 at 06:32:00PM BRT, Dougal Campbell <dougal at gunters.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Joe Hildebrand wrote:
> 
> > How did Alice find Bob's e-mail address when she got an e-mail account for
> > the first time?
> 
> Who says that she did? Maybe she hasn't found his email either. Maybe
> she hasn't seen Bob since they graduated from high school, doesn't even
> know what city he lives in, and has no clue about how to find him. But
> if they both use Jabber, wouldn't it be nice for there to be some easier
> way for them to track each other down?

        You're assuming Bob wants to be found :)

        Seriously, though, I think that would be nice *if* Bob agrees to
have his jid put in a central directory. I'd hate to start receiving spam
via jabber as well...



                rbp
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