[Adium-devl] Help in developing a plugin to mass message

[Christopher Forsythe]

2009/3/18 Zachary West <zacwest at gmail.com>

> 2009/3/18 Jackson Chung <jacksonchung at gmail.com>
>
>> Hello all,
>> Evan directed me to the mailing list. I would like to request for some
>> advice regarding a feature I've been desperately trying to attain in Adium.
>>
>> I'm an administrator for a student association. We have over 500 student
>> contacts and I'd like to use adium to "blast" or "global cast" announcements
>> to everyone. I'm trying to find a plugin that will send the message to ALL
>> contacts without opening chat windows or creating message logs.
>>
>> If anyone would like to help me/ tell me how to write this plugin, I'd be
>> much obliged.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> You could potentially do this by iterating over all the contacts and
> sending them an AIContentMessage. You can flag the content message as
> neither tracking content nor being displayed. You'd have to more than likely
> create a window to send the message, as well as a location to drag/drop
> contacts or groups to determine whom to send to.
>
> It's technically possible, just not implemented in Adium.
>

Rate limiting could probably be done by queueing up the message to be sent
locally, sort of how irssi does it.

I thought that there was an applescript to do this on the xtras site.

Chris
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