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Messages, Autorouting

Contents 1 The Problem 2 The Solution 3 Caveats 4 Why use message commands at all?

[edit] The Problem

Knowing what command to send to rhub if you want to send a message can be tricky to remember or tap into a phone. Additionally, sending a simple text reply is the natural response to receiving a message.

[edit] The Solution

If you send a message to rhub via any console interface (mobile phone, MSN, email etc.), and it doesn't look like a command to rhub, it'll forward it to the last place you got a message from.

For example, if you receive a message via the group 'anarchists', if sending a plain text reply (without any command characters) will send the message to that group.

Likewise, if you receive a message from Detlev as a result of you being a friend of his, replying to the message will send it back to Detlev.

[edit] Caveats

Messages will be sent to the last place you received a message from. So say you receive a message from a group, then a friend. If you send a reply after the second message, it'll go to your friend, not the group. To send a message to the group, you'll have to use the console messaging prefix.

The other caveat is that if you reply after three hours to a message, rhub will ignore where your last message came from and return an error. This is so that you won't accidently send a message to some place you didn't intend.

[edit] Why use message commands at all?

The messaging command (>[destination] [message]) is there so that rhub knows where to send your message. Since you can send messages to locations, people, friends, groups or discussions rhub needs this bit of addressing information.