Sending a single message to a group

bwest · Post by **bwest** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:29 am

Is there a way to send a message to all members of a group? When I try selecting them all and sending, it only goes to the last person selected. Any ideas? I've read all the help and tried to check trac but it has been down the last few days more than it has been up. I'm using 0.89.1, jabber protocol and a 10.4.8 Xserve with iChat server running. Any help is most appreciated.

--Bryan

LuxuryChair · Post by **LuxuryChair** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:32 am

this isn't possible with the built in functions in Adium.

I don't think with applescript either.

A plugin would probably be able to add this functionality, but I don't know of any that include this option.

Post by **bgannin** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:59 am

This behavior is known as 'broadcasting' a message. We don't intend to add this functionality directly to Adium as it could be used to facilitate spim (IM spam) actions. There is an AppleScript on the Xtras site that provides this functionality, though it may need to be customized to suit your needs.

bwest · Post by **bwest** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:54 am

Thanks for the info. We are going to try and use it in a school system as a county-wide communication tool. The "broadcasting" feature is the only limitation we have found with Adium at this point. I'll try that applescript, though and see how it works.

--Bryan

Post by **evands** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:40 am

bwest wrote:Thanks for the info. We are going to try and use it in a school system as a county-wide communication tool. The "broadcasting" feature is the only limitation we have found with Adium at this point. I'll try that applescript, though and see how it works.

--Bryan

Broadcaster may not scale to a large number of users on AIM because the server imposes limits upon how quickly messages can be sent. A more complex, smarter solution - probably in the form of an actual Adium plugin written in Cocoa - could space out the messages so as not to be "rate limited". A plugin solution could also avoid opening tens/hundreds of chat tabs in the process of sending the messages.

Adium 1.0 will manage your rate limit for you, spacing messages out automatically, but Adium 0.89.1 isn't clever enough to do so.

I don't think rate limiting is a problem for Jabber, but I'm not positive.

bwest · Post by **bwest** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 9:23 pm

evands wrote:Broadcaster may not scale to a large number of users on AIM because the server imposes limits upon how quickly messages can be sent. A more complex, smarter solution - probably in the form of an actual Adium plugin written in Cocoa - could space out the messages so as not to be "rate limited". A plugin solution could also avoid opening tens/hundreds of chat tabs in the process of sending the messages.

Adium 1.0 will manage your rate limit for you, spacing messages out automatically, but Adium 0.89.1 isn't clever enough to do so.

I don't think rate limiting is a problem for Jabber, but I'm not positive.

We will see how well it works. I think the script will do what we want for now, though. Thanks for the help.

--Bryan