[JDEV] Re: Webpresence revisited [Was: JabberCentral]

[GuruJ]

Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel wrote:
> 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...

Just out of interest, which communications model do people feel best 
applies to Jabber?

(a) ICQ model:  Centralized server, compulsory public directory listing 
(easy to search for people, interests, etc. in directory)

OR

(b) email model:  Distributed, interoperable servers (no standard public 
directory listing, but people can opt to list their addresses in various 
private listings)

There seems to be some conflict between what people expect Jabber to be 
and to do...