[Wocky] Possible addition for Jabber docs

[Heather Anne Harrison]

I'll make sure to note the first issue in the docs, assuming
nothing is changed.

As for the script, that sounds like a useful addition.  A good
percentage of users interested in the service have likely used
GAIM in the past.

Heather Anne
aurora at mit.edu


Quoting Jonathan Reed <jdreed at MIT.EDU>:

> 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.
>
> -------
>
> 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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