[TriLUG] Jabber usernames

[Jeff Groves]

As in:


  /who *.rr.com

Jeff G.

Jeff Groves wrote:

> 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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