[TriLUG] Jabber usernames

[Jeff Groves]

Agreed.  I left out the /who command, which your can use not only the 
nick of the person, but also any portion of their domain name from which 
they connect.

Thanks,

Jeff G.

Aaron Joyner wrote:

> Jeff Groves wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure I follow your line of thought concerning "IRC presuming 
>> you are already in the same channel".  I know that in any (compliant) 
>> IRC client, all I have to do is connect to the server, do a /list to 
>> see all of the channels or do a /whois <nick> to find someone.
>>
>> I have yet to find either such feature for Jabber in Trillian or 
>> Gaim.  Am I missing something?  It seems that with Jabber, you just 
>> "have to know" and it's not going to help you find it.
>
>
> The key point (which has already been made, but not this explicitly) 
> is that to make any use of /whois, you must know the person's nick. 
> Knowing someone's IRC nic is analogous to knowing their jabber UID 
> (except jabber UIDs are usually more logical).  Often, a user's email 
> address (which they're posting to TriLUG with) is their JUID (although 
> that's not entirely the case yet, and isn't quite for trilug, it's an 
> easy deduction if you're familiar with Jabber).
>
> So in short, if you don't know someone's IRC nic, and you're on a 
> relatively busy server (which any Freenode node qualifies as), you're 
> going to have a heluva time locating them also.  Try deducing some of 
> the IRC names used by TriLUG members, such as nilbus, admiralfrijole, 
> alchemist, etc.  Heck, my IRC name of many moons ago used to always be 
> "Laughs".  :)  By contrast, things like jbroome at jabber.trilug.org, 
> jbebel at jabber.mybox.org, asjoyner at jabber.mybox.org, etc are often much 
> easier to deduce from just the email address the person posts with 
> (myself being a little bit of an exception).
>
> Less babling, more packing.  :)
>
> Aaron S. Joyner


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