[jdev] sending messages to self-organized groups

[Julian Missig]

At one point I was advocated Jabber mailing lists based on pub/sub 
which would do pretty much exactly this. Basically just using pub/sub 
on messages.

It shouldn't be all that hard to adapt pub/sub to do this.

Julian


On 5 Oct 2004, at 7:39, Artemy Tregoubenko wrote:

> Hello.
>
> There's an idea i want to realize at my local jabber server. It has 
> something common with mailing-lists and IRC. There should be some 
> groups (i.e. 'sport', 'media') with free membership: any user of this 
> server may join any group or leave it at any time. When user 'A' sends 
> message to a group, the message is broadcasted to all group members, 
> but replies to this message are sent only to 'A' (that differs from 
> mailing-lists). This should be useful (and actually was useful with 
> local icq server) for almost-instant searching, asking questions etc.
>
> With slightly hacked icq server the system worked this way: you write 
> message with group name to specific virtual user. Server broadcasts 
> the message to everyone in group, saying it's from you. So everyone 
> else thinks it's a common message from you. Then conversation 
> continues one-to-one.
>
> Mailing-lists are not suitable, as they have large delays (2 minutes - 
> too long) .
> IRC channels (or jabber conferences) do not suit, as they need 
> attention all the time.
> Sending message to miltiple contacts is bad: every user will have to 
> configure group list himself (supposing 300-400 members per group).
>
> Is there any component or something to make this work?
> I have some ideas how to do this myself, but none of them is really 
> good, because I don't want to edit server code or make users 
> Search-Add-Message every time they want to reply.
>
> -- 
> Sincerely yours, Arty
> [ (i): http://copi.ru/38708/ ]
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