Dave,
Suddenly I've thought of a reason to enforce anonymity and continuing
shameful themes :)
If someone joins one of those dating site type setups that they
advertise on the tv late at night, the site would want to enforce
anonymity so the users cannot directly contact each other to avoid
their pay per message system.
Just a tacky thought :)
Ps: I see the benefit of a required before actually joining the group.
I like that thought.
Cheers
Kirk
On 18 Mar 2010, at 20:37, Dave Cridland <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu Mar 18 20:25:30 2010, Kirk Bateman wrote:
Sonny,
It is very relevant to be able to enforce showing the real jid by
the administrator in some situations. It also makes it easier to
handle jids that spam muc groups too.
Yes, but there's a policy and a request.
So if I try to join [email protected], I might be
expecting it to be anonymous, so nobody knows my shameful secret.
But if an admin decides to make it a non-anonymous room, I'll
discover that too late - even discoing the room beforehand leaves a
window of opportunity to expose my shame.
Whereas, if I can provide a "I must be anonymous" as part of my
join, then the join could be rejected, and my secret is safe.
Similarly, many of our rooms - [email protected] springs
to mind in particular - are anonymous, even though many of the
participants might not care, or possibly even *want* their jids known.
So I might join saying "I want to expose my jid". I can't see a
reason why you'd want to insist on that as a prerequisite to joining
the room, mind, but I don't see the reason to enforce anonymity.
Dave.
I was wondering if let the MUC administrator/configuration choose
to show real JID or not is relevant.
Why don't let the participant choose if he want to show is real
JID or not? Just like he choose his nickname.
If the user don't specify if he want to show his real JID or not,
the MUC will decide (depends on the MUC configuration) for him
which ensures "compatibility" with MUC/server which doesn't
implements this.
So basically, I think Sonny's (basically) right.
Dave.
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