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zaik
314 days ago
It seems like the only internet protocols they didn't implement were the ones designed for chat. How could they forget about IRC, XMPP and SIP?
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bravesoul2
314 days ago
No SOAP, CORBA, WAP or RS232 interfaces either.
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nosioptar
313 days ago
Lousy infidels snubbed the almighty telnet as well.
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mannyv
313 days ago
Tn3270 FTW!
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evbogue
314 days ago
This is because when an account generates text in a chatroom it is generally referred to as a "bot".
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progval
314 days ago
They can create chatrooms dynamically so no one but the user will see them.
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evbogue
314 days ago
That's wise, but how will the user protect against the host in those protos?
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progval
314 days ago
Protect against the host doing what?
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etaioinshrdlu
314 days ago
These can definitely be added
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precommunicator
313 days ago
Or IP over Avian Carriers or HTCPCP
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hkt
314 days ago
I'd love a deltachat bot too..
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anthk
314 days ago
It's trivial to bind a text output with socat to a mail account or IRC with ii.
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urbandw311er
313 days ago
Great observation
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stephenlf
313 days ago
SMTP!
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