-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:09:16 +0000 Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:29:37AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > >On Saturday 25 February 2006 04:56, Alex Nordstrom wrote: > > > >> Another solution is to use the Jabber network, which is also > >> supported by Gaim. Some servers on the Jabber network provide > >> gateway services to other networks so that, normally, clients do > >> not need to update when the proprietary half of the network > >> changes. The Jabber protocol is also less likely to change > >> unexpectedly and become backwards-incompatible like the > >> proprietary alternatives. > >> > >> http://www.jabber.org/ > > > >This is ultimately what we needed; all the multiprotocol IM clients > >are merely a bad hack in comparison to just making an open network > >in the first place. > > Has anyone ever gotten it to work? > > I was very happy to find out Google federated GTalk a while back, and > I was hoping that this'd mean I could ditch Gaim and use a Jabber-only > client. However, after trying several translation servers I have still > no access to my MSN/Yahoo accounts and the contacts I have there... I've never tried it with MSN or Yahoo, but I setup a jabber server on a Sarge server a while back. The gateway feature works great for aim, in my experience. HTH, Jacob -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEAMGukpJ43hY3cTURApHzAJ9TXTdy87l5hkuRVig/afhzL2rvWACgoNiz QLvtm/6qXJrHZ7GoEGzmRbw= =8LtK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
