Re: Shared contact list?

On Mar 26, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Nicholas Cole wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Peter Saint-Andre  
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> Thanks for the reply.  When I looked into this a while ago it looked
>>> as if all the implementations required the members of the group to  
>>> be
>>> on the same server - which I guess makes sense.  But it would be  
>>> nice
>>> if there was a way to 'join' a shared group managed on a different
>>> server.  I hope that makes sense...
>>
>> Oh yes I think that would be very useful for things like teams,  
>> clubs,
>> distributed classrooms, social networking groups, etc. We just need  
>> to
>> agree on how we're going to make that happen. :)
>
> Well, that was my thought too. ;)  In my naive and uniformed way, I
> had thought that it might work a bit like the various 'gateways' to
> MSN and the like do now.
>

That would still require a central computer holding the info though so  
that the jabber servers don't have to do call outs to all the hundreds  
of thousands (Maybe) of jabber servers out there?

Or am I missing something like normal? :)


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