[jdev] Re: New MSN-t in the works

[Tijl Houtbeckers]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:07:51 +1000, James Bunton <james at delx.cjb.net>  
wrote:

> Oh yeah, I wanted to ask. Has anybody got any good ideas for a better  
> way to
> do Jabber<->MSN groupchat? The MSN protocol makes no separation between
> groupchats and ordinary chats, and extra people can be invited into a  
> room at
> any time. So the only way I can think of handling it is..

You could drop groupchat and use SHIM (JEP-0131) to indicate there are  
multiple recipients to a message. That would require clients to implement  
parts of SHIM though, and to be smart about it when they write a reply to  
a message or start their own mini-conferences. (they should add their own  
SHIM headers, particulary when they do the inviting themselves).