[Bug 70489] generic mechanism for "server sent us random text"

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70489

--- Comment #1 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> ---
Past suggestions have included:

• a special channel type (Chan.T.ServerMessages?)

• a new handle type for Text channels (Handle_Type_Server?)

• treating the server's name as a contact handle without modification

  - for XMPP, more or less rejected, because if a user alice.smith at example.com
    types "bob.lincoln" into Empathy, we want that to mean
    bob.lincoln at example.com, and not a server called "bob" in the
    Ford Motor Company's proposed ".lincoln" gTLD[1]

• mangling the server's name somehow, e.g. "@collabora.co.uk"
  to represent Collabora's XMPP server instead of the correct
  "collabora.co.uk"

  - I suggested this but it's a bit icky, and I seem to remember people
    hating it

Any other ideas?

A new channel type would have the advantage that we could set some sort of "how
likely to be relevant is this?", and loggers would refrain from logging the
login spam from IRC servers.

[1] picking one of the sillier examples from
    http://money.cnn.com/infographic/technology/new-gtld-list/

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