Re: Stable IM client in debian
My real question should be, if I use gabber for my icq stuff, will my
message be delivered reliably. If not, any other alternative? thanx.
your help was/is appreciated =)
Edwin Lau
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:18:37PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:49:04 -0500
> Chun Kit Edwin Lau <try_email_me@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> > So in this case, gabber is stable enough to do the everyday messaging
> > right?
>
> > > Don't know how well it'll work (I don't use it) but you might want to
> > > check out gabber which is a jabber client (supports jabber, AIM, ICQ and
> > > probably other protocols).
>
> Jabber might, AOL is not (AIM and ICQ will fail when you really need a
> message delivered). AOL has explicitly forbidden using jabber as an
> AIM gateway. They've invested an considerable amount of work to make
> it fail with any not spam displaying software including their own
> older versions. So most probably they'll do the same to ICQ.
>
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> Christoph Simon
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