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Re: [xmpp] 3921bis: delivery of messages addressed to bare JIDs



On 2/1/10 12:06 PM, Ben Schumacher wrote:
> On 02/01/2010 03:27 AM, Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
>>> Missing IMs because you accidentally left yourself logged in on another
>>> machine, or because Client X has different default priority settings
>>> than Client Y is inconvenient, annoying and prone to error.
>>
>> This could be fixed by specifying that the default priority should be
>> 0. Why kill a feature just because a few users don't use it? It could
>> be just hidden from them and those who want to use it can still use
>> it. I would not want to use a server that delivers my messages to all
>> resources.
>>
> 
> That is the default priority. No priority defaults to 0. Unfortunately
> the entire usage of priorities has become so muddled that some clients
> (Gajim, for example) try to do clever things with priority. Nobody
> suggesting necessarily killing it, but why not have a sane way to use
> XMPP for IMs without it. The fact of the matter is that most people I
> talk to much prefer the way GTalk works to the "standard" way which
> requires people like me to SSH into our boxes at home to kill the client
> we accidentally left running.

http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0146.html

> If people are using XMPP for IM then receiving their messages is always
> preferable to not. Regardless, PSA's change here is a softening of the
> language from a "SHOULD" that isn't honored by the most widely used XMPP
> deployment and puts it into the hands of implementations and
> administrators to make what they feel is the most appropriate choice for
> their users.

Yes, that seems most reasonable for now.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
https://stpeter.im/



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