[Wocky] Possible addition for Jabber docs

[Jonathan Reed]

The jabber docs should probably remind people that they need to use 
username at mit.edu" when initiating chats with people not in their 
buddy list.  Attempting to chat with just "jdreed", for example, 
won't work, but it won't throw an error either.  I ran into this in 
gaim, attempting to figure out why I couldn't talk to my test 
account, and realized I was still thinking in a Zephyr mindset.

In, iChat, however, if you initiate a "New Chat with Person", and 
don't specify a domain in the address, it assumes the same domain as 
your current server.  Therefore, in iChat, I can in fact just open a 
new chat with "joeuser" and it will realize it's "joeuser at mit.edu".

Is there any way to set a "default realm" in Gaim, or better yet have 
it append the server name if there is no "@" sign?  This has the 
potential to be confusing, particularly for people who use Jabber 
with Gaim and Zephyr at the same time.

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Also, on an unrelated note, I created a simple script to set up a 
Jabber account for people who had previously used Gaim on Athena for 
another service (ie: AIM, Zephyr) and therefore would already have an 
accounts.xml file and would not get the Jabber account by default 
from the wrapper script.   It was initially an exercise in playing 
with Perl+XML, but then I realized we only have XML::Parser in the 
release, and not an XML writer, so I gave up.   It's at 
~/Public/jabber-setup  - if anyone thinks it's a good idea to have, I 
can dump it in the consult locker.


-Jon
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Jonathan Reed

jdreed at mit.edu
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