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

[Remmelt Koenes]

> 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...
>
>
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I must go with B (email modal) to be able to run your on server is one of
the key features of jabber.
And the way the server communicate with each other, closly looks like e-mail.

With Kind regards

Remmelt Koenes
Developer of TSIM (http://jabber.triplesoftware.com/)