Re: debian.org Jabber server?

[Daniel Stone <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au>]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 02:13:45AM +0200, Brother Marek Habersack preached da werd, yo:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 09:41:30AM +1000, Daniel Stone scribbled:
> > Yes, lots of people use Messenger/AIM/ICQ, but Debian isn't hosting any
> > of these services, thus it's not "adding" another IM service. Jabber
> > already exists, the post is just talking about the ability to use
> > @debian.org addresses with Jabber.
> Besides jabber isn't just another IM - it can use all those
> protocols/services mentioned above. More, if one uses, say, GAIM, they can
> use it to talk to a jabber server. So, one could argue, adding jabber is
> (possibly) having one IM _less_ :)

Exactly. Ditto Kopete. :)

There are a whole heap of Jabber clients, and most of them (not Kopete
yet, tho) support agents and transports.

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Daniel Stone                                     <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au>
Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne