[Wocky] username vs. username@mit.edu

[Greg Hudson]

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 15:56 -0500, Joanne Hallisey wrote:
> This is something that we should gauge user response to.  If it is  
> not a big deal to them, maybe you can wait.

Perhaps.  It's looking like we'll have to leave this one alone,
disappointing as that is.

I looked into a server-side hack for this, but it turns out to be harder
than I had hoped.  Jabberd 2 uses magic domain names like "c2s" and "sm"
for communication between server components.  So if I change it to parse
all bare-word JIDs as username at mit.edu, I interfere with that, and the
server stops working.  Trying to change the JID more selectively (in
message, presence, and roster requests received by c2s) looks to be
difficult due to jabberd's architecture.

I don't think Paul's compromise would convince the Gaim developers.
Most of them are looking to reduce the number of configuration options
in Gaim, not add to them.