[Standards-JIG] File transfer improvements

[Kevin Smith]

On 7 Jul 2006, at 17:36, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> Nolan Eakins wrote:
>>  but we need to be able to send
>> files to people who are offline. This would allow actual  
>> attachments and
>> inline images in offline messag
>
> Those are nice ideas. How will it happen?
> ... Naturally, many
> server deployments may not want to provide that kind of offline  
> storage.

Many won't, but I think there's a great number of people who run  
their own servers and wouldn't mind this (with sensible constraints).  
It's also worth considering email, which we compare ourselves to  
(well, I do) email servers allow (limited size) offline file storage;  
if we'd like every isp to eventually provide xmpp like they do mail,  
it's not infeasible that we'd end up with admins willing to give 5meg  
to each user or such.

/K

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