[ticker-dev] presence proxy agent

Michael Lawley lawley at dstc.edu.au
Wed Oct 17 16:07:38 EST 2001


David Arnold wrote:

> -->"Klaus" == Klaus Alexander Seistrup <kas-list at magnetic-ink.dk>writes:

> Klaus>Perhaps this is a dumb question, but why would I want a bot
> Klaus>to respond on my behalf when I'm offline?

> if i'm going to be offline, i might want to explain why ... for
> example, "on vacation, back 1st nov" or "flying to tokyo" or whatever.

> i reckon it could be useful for my "buddies" to be able to discover
> this, without relying on a single, central server even if my client is
> not active?

y'know, a proper persistent tuple space (linda :-) would be just the
ticket here.

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