Proposal for new XMPP account settings: worse or better?

Ethan Blanton elb at pidgin.im
Fri Aug 27 16:13:37 EDT 2010


Paul Aurich spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > Also, maybe "Require encryption"?
> 
> That also works for me.  Ethan, you said you preferred TLS instead of
> STARTTLS; any preference between "Require encryption" and "Require TLS"?

Nothing strong.  My objection to STARTTLS was simply that it's overly
technical.  TLS is a recognizable term which might occur in service
documentation, but so might encryption.  No preference, I guess.

Ethan

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determined to commit crimes.
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