Re: EB-lite feature requests

On Tuesday 11 March 2003 19:26, Philip S Tellis wrote:
> Have a dummy buddy group that isn't listed in the group/contact list.
> Dummy contacts are added to this group, and accounts added to it.
>
> This group does not correspond to anything on the server.  Ayttm uses
> something like __Dummy__%random%__%pid%__

My kludge-sense is tingling again, but this sounds more like the type of 
solution we're after.

What about having eb_account objects in separate, special linked list, and 
with a NULL "contact" pointer? Message send and receive messages could just 
omit the group and contact (empty string - something which should NEVER be 
allowed by the core, whereas "__Dummy_whatever" is technically valid), and 
service routines should just be prepared to accept calls involving an account 
with no contact attached.

This might make work for the UI, though...anyone?

Meredydd
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