dynamically add other users to a conversation (not a MUC chat-room)

Using MicroSoft Messenger, I have found that a particularly powerful method of collaboration is to dynamically add users to a conversation.

is this possible using ejabberd, and some Jabber client?

note that I'm NOT talking about setting up a static/persistant MUC chat-room, which seems to be working fine for me.

an example of the collaboration I'm talking about is:

- in my Systems support role, I'm messaging with a person in a client dept.
- we discover an additional resource will facilitate solution of our problem, and we add them.
- we add additional people to the conversation which persists untill the problem is solved, then we all "leave"
the conversation.

this is so easy, and so powerful under MicroSoft Messenger -- can I do it with jabber?

thanks,

-Kevin

Yahoo! Messenger can do this

Yahoo! Messenger can do this also.

-KB

Re: Yahoo! Messenger can do this

kbroekho wrote:

Yahoo! Messenger can do this also.

So? We are talking about jabber here, right?

thanks for the tip about Gajim

zinid wrote:
kbroekho wrote:

Yahoo! Messenger can do this also.

So? We are talking about jabber here, right?

yes, I'm talking about jabber, in particular, I want ejabberd server to support this feature.

the reason I mention Yahoo!, Microsoft Messengers is that I have used them in the past, and setting
up what I'm calling "dynamic" conversations is what people do all day -- it didn't occur to me
that jabber/ejabberd couldn't do it, and I can't understand why people are "sold" on jabber/ejabbered
if it doesn't do it.

thanks for the tip about Gajim -- I will check it out.

Best,

-Kevin

Re: dynamically add other users to a conversation

kbroekho wrote:

I want ejabberd server to support this feature.

Once again: this is a feature of client, not server. See http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html#continue.
If you need this feature and you don't want to use Gajim, contact the developers of your favorite jabber client. ejabberd is *not* responsible for this feature.

kbroekho wrote:

the reason I mention Yahoo!, Microsoft Messengers is that I have used them in the past, and setting
up what I'm calling "dynamic" conversations is what people do all day -- it didn't occur to me
that jabber/ejabberd couldn't do it, and I can't understand why people are "sold" on jabber/ejabbered
if it doesn't do it.

If you like yahoo or m$ messenger then go and use them. Noone here will sell you on jabber/ejabberd.

thanks

thenks for your excellent technical feedback zinid -- that really helped me get my mind around this
jabber thing.

I am happily using gajim per your suggestion.

-Kevin

Re: dynamically add other users to a conversation

Last version of Gajim supports such feature.

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