Re: question about long jid pymsnt

> On 18-Mar-06, at 11:57 PM, mohd_izzuan wrote:
> i have some question regarding the long jid for pymsnt. is there a way for
> the jid just displaying just the username for example 'friend@xxxxxxxxxxx'
> and not just ' friend%hotmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx' . it would be really
> neat if it is can be done so. thanks..

On 3/19/06, Travis Bell <travisbell@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I do see the point of this, it really would be easier. Is it at all
> possible?

It can be done, but then only @hotmail.com addresses are supported. 
Any email is a valid MSN address, so you're cutting out a big part of
the userbase this way.

Most clients have the ability to rename contacts and show the
preferred name instead of the real jid.  They also do the behind the
scenes legacy adress to jid tranlastion for you.   (Psi does both of
these things)

The benifits are just not there to do things this way.  <sarcasm>Maybe
try emailing microsoft and ask then to set up a xmpp gateway at
'hotmail.com' so that everything work seemlessly.</sarcasm>

FYI: JJIGW does this sort or thing for IRC.  (where as the xmpp.py
irc-transport uses the PyMSNt format)  Each have their own strengths
and weaknesses.

BTW: This idea _DOES_ make sense for the PyAIMt and PyICQt transports
because there's a very limited domain of where they can exist.  It's
up to the server admin, but you could use myaimfriend@xxxxxxx or
1234567@xxxxxxx as the contact address.  (the 'domains' don't _HAVE_
to be thing.jabber.server.example.com, but if they aren't, then users
on other servers can't use them.

So in a sort of way you could maybe get friend%hotmail.com@xxxxxxx,
but that doesn't really help much.

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