[Gossip-dev] Improvement Ideas

[Yasen Pramatarov]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:38:06 +0100 CJ van den Berg wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:41:57PM +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
>> I agree privacy is quite important in Instant Messaging and it is
>> important that the user should be able to control how much
>> interruption they receive as by configuring the software.
>> 
>> If you don't want people to know that your presence information you
>> shouldn't use an Instant Messaging client. The whole point is real
>> time communication of presence and messaging and if you don't want
>> that, perhaps you should be using email.
>
>An all or nothing solution is not enough though. What if you _want_ to
>be seen as online but you want to be able to hide from just one or two
>people on your roster?

 I think privacy lists will solve this. But IIRC it's a server-side
feature, not just in the client. I think Ejabberd supports this in
latest versions, and others will follow.
 So maybe there is need for some kind of privacy lists functionality in
gossip?...

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