[jdev] Re: Contact nick change notification
Richard Dobson
richard at dobson-i.net
Fri May 6 17:06:15 CDT 2005
> It all depends on how you look at a nickname. For me, a nickname is a
> static thing, which doesn't change (much), just as with the other VCard
> fields such as addresses, phone numbers, e-mails, etc. Moreover, persons
> changing their nickname constantly (as people are doing on MSN) is very
> confusing practice, as most of the time i fail to find these persons in
> my roster when i need them.
Yea which is why my pubsub proposal is good, for the people who dont want to
receive their friends updated nicknames they simply dont subscribe to
receive updates, but for those of us who do want them we can get them,
everybody wins, which is why I find it so strange that people are still
against it.
> The way i see it, a person could want to change his nickname to reflect
> the state in which a person is, if that would accidentally have some
> likeliness to their nickname (for example, if 'spike' was going crazy, he
> might want to change it temporarily into 'psike'). And in that case, i
> would just put that in my status message, as it reflects my status.
Yup but not all of these things that people use MSN nicknames for all fit
into jabber status, status to me would be my actual upto the minute status,
whereas I might want to change my nickname for some reason, thats part of
the fun of MSN nicknames.
> I guess you could make a pubsub JEP if you really want it.
I already did its at:
http://www.jabber.org/jeps/inbox/nick.html
still yet to hear whats going on with it
Richard
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