On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:06:39AM +0200, Erich Schubert scribbled: > > Plus jabber can be much more secure than IRC and with much less effort. > > Do we need IRC to be secure? I don't think so. That's not what I said. I don't care about IRC being secure or not, I care about the possibility of some software to be more secure - and that's precisely what I said. With gabber, as said elsewhere in this thread, you can encrypt your messages if need be - and I've had numerous occassions when it was desirable (like, say, somebody sending me their machine's root password - it's a valid reason for encryption, IMHO). > > I, for one, would love to get messages on jabber about bugs filed against my > > packages, perhaps also stuff like debian weekly newsletters, debianplanet > > headlines - anything is possible. > > DWN makes much more sense per mail as via Instant-Mail, as does > Debianplanet via web and rdf feeds. It is your opinion, mine is stated above. I don't really know why would mail make more sense than jabber, or the other way around - it's just a matter of preference, nothing more. Both are valid and neither contradicts the other - and, I think, it should be possible to create a jabber agent that could use, say, RDF feeds to export them to subscribed jabber users or one that gateways the DWN mails to the jabber users. > I'm not opposed to Jabber as such - i would prefer it to other IMs if i > would actually use IM much, my partners would use Jabber or the Gateways > would actually work - but i just don't see anything we would gain over > the current Mail+IRC situation. Do you see anything we could lose? marek
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