[Wocky] Jabber feedback

[Greg Hudson]

Thanks very much for the feedback.  I have a couple of responses:

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 10:29 -0500, Christine L Moulen wrote:
> One thing that bugs me a bit is the inability to be signed in at more
> than one location.

You can do this by using a different resource name at the two locations,
but it's not nearly as transparent as it is with Zephyr.  Messages sent
to orbitee at mit.edu (with no specified resource) will only go to one of
your two locations, and if you join a multi-user chat from both
locations, you will have to use different nicknames.

This is a known downside to Jabber relative to Zephyr, and we are
keeping our eyes open for possible improvements.

> Finally, a couple people have noticed that GAIM supports a Zephyr
> protocol.  It works from Athena.  But we're wondering if it can be used
> from Windows.  I know that's not Jabber, so if it's beyond the scope of
> this pilot, no problem.

Unfortunately, this isn't possible.

Thanks again.

Greg Hudson
Infrastructure Software Development and Architecture
Information Services and Technology