<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Ernest Nova <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ennova2005-jabber@yahoo.com">ennova2005-jabber@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 3. I believe the specific remedy for your situation and of similar other alerting bots would be to define an XMPP extension / message attribute that would instruct the remote server to deliver a message only if it thinks the user is in a certain presence state. (Whether or not Gtalk will implement it is another matter).  This could be part of extensions defining delivery instructions in general.<br> </blockquote></div><br>XEP-0079 [1] perhaps?<br><br>[1] <a href="http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0079.html">http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0079.html</a><br><br>-- <br>- Norman Rasmussen<br> - Email: <a href="mailto:norman@rasmussen.co.za">norman@rasmussen.co.za</a><br> - Home page: <a href="http://norman.rasmussen.co.za/">http://norman.rasmussen.co.za/</a><br> </div>