[MUD-Dev] On socialization and convenience

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:42:56 -0400 
Dave Rickey <daver at mythicentertainment.com> wrote:

> For what it is worth, we've considered it, and haven't yet ruled
> it out, as a Guild Leader tool at least.  You're correct that the
> interface issues are significant, at least for recieving messages
> (since they all insist that messages be viewed in their client).
> *Sending* a message, however, is a simple matter of making an HTTP
> call.

While I know the corporate reasons why not, this begs the question:

  Why not grab Jabber/Everybuddy/Gale (pick your favourite
  license/implementation) and roll it in that way as a reverse
  engineered feature.  At that point you're just throwing/accepting
  protocol streams to/from your client(s) with no prior investment
  or arrangement with the IM service.

If you want to get clever and handle protocol upgrades, have the IM
client protocol stack be a small soft download that occurs on first
connect/authentication with the game (a few K for the new/current
protocol stack with a digital signature should do it).

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J C Lawrence                                       claw at kanga.nu
---------(*)                          http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/
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