[asterisk-users] Astricon people please post the announcement

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 03:44:01PM +0200, randulo wrote:
> Get Olle to call in for once in his life!
> 
> Mark did say IM and video, IM first. It's all gonna happen. (just not
> right away)

On the topic of #pidgin they say, amomng others, "Pidgin does NOT
support voice or video". Likewise we should state on #asterisk "Asterisk
does NOT support text chats".

There are some awkward methods for sending some text messages over some
channels (SMS in european POTS, SIMPLE and simpler texxt messages in
SIP, XMMP for Jingle, and well, probably nothing in IAX. Bristuff ads
even a few more bits there).

But do we actually care routing those messages from one place to
another?

This is a major limitation of Asterisk for me. Text messages require
much lower a bandwith and a text connection is much easier to setup.
Hence it can work even when a voip connection is lousy. 

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