[jdev] Re: Contact nick change notification

[George Hazan]

   Hello, Julien!
   Fri, 06 May 2005 22:01:10 +0200 you wrote:

JP> As far as I know, people who have me in their rosters choose under which
JP> name I appear, not me;

Well, as almost any IM system, Jabber has two nicknames: one controlled by 
me (in roster) and one controlled by the contact's owner. Imagine that I 
hadn't renamed it, I use the default one provided by the owner. In this case 
I wanna track the changes made by him.

JP> (but the server will still notify to all their active resources about
JP> it).

Nope, it doesn't.

JP> When I'm in a room, then I get to choose my nickname.

Not in a room, just in a roster. I can call a form to change my details at 
any moment, and almost all protocols but the Jabber notify all online users 
who have me in their rosters about this fact.

JP> Finally, if I want to tell others which song I'm hearing, or have an
JP> avatar, etc...

I would say that publishing the current song is a perversion :) but the 
current geographic location - no.

JP> Isn't pubsub used for that?

You won't be notified anyway. And cause the polliing suxx, I'm trying to 
find the solution.

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WMBR, George Hazan (ghazan at postman.ru)