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• Better use of Instant Messaging
  2003-07-03 08:26:01  germuska [View]
  
  
  The Jabber folks think of things this way -- in fact, O'Reilly's own Programming Jabber has several examples. For instance, the author suggested that he might have a machine on the far end of a dial-up connection periodically dial in (rather than attempt to maintain a long-term dial-up connection), and then register it's presence with a Jabber Server, so that one could know when the "window of opportunity" for connecting back to the home machine was open.
  
  It's sort of frustrating that Jabber hasn't broken out of the hobbyist camp, but then, HTTP was around for several years before it caught the public imagination.

• Better use of Instant Messaging
  2003-07-02 16:11:28  bbrown [View]
  
  
  That's an interesting use of IM, certainly, but I think it's tacking on functionality that doesn't belong.
  
  Perhaps a different app that might follow the same conventions as IM, but not use IM applications? I can think of a dashboard-style app that would use Rendezvous to establish connections and do the actual transmission using Jabber or something like that.
  
  Your notion of an all-in-one app runs counter to small pieces loosely joined and the general UNIX design philosophy. I'd like to see a number of different apps that can all interoperate or not, depending on your usage.