[jdev] Admin Address Server requirements

[Trejkaz]

On Thursday 04 May 2006 15:58, Chris Mullins wrote:
> The main use case which it seems to be addressing is, "a user wants to
> send an IM to the server admin", which is great - but this isn't a
> strong way to do that. None of the users I know, including myself, would
> send a message to "jabber.org" in an attempt to get to Peter.

Clients provide a GUI where you enter the message and press Send, and that's 
all you need to do.  For example, Psi does this for broadcast addresses such 
as example.com/announce/online, the user doesn't need to know the actual 
address (although with this particular implementation, they can see it and 
remember it for the future.)

> I'm going to implement this as it's described (one more item on that
> list to check off, and it's only going to take an hour or two), but I'm
> not comfortably enough with it to leave it enabled by default on
> installation - or even to query during the install process to see if it
> should be enabled.

As a server admin who used to have himself listed as a <read> admin under 
jabberd 1.4.4, I can vouch that the vast majority of messages that do come to 
this special address are useless.  Most of the messages tend to be someone 
answering the automated welcome message, thinking that it was smart (just 
guessing.)

I think the full implementation of that JEP, supporting the multitude of 
different address types, is definitely the way to go.  That way in the 
client, I can just go "Report Abuse", send the message and continue chatting.  
It would also be less likely for someone to accidentally send a message to an 
address like example.com/abuse.

TX


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