Saturday, 25 February 2006 16:44, Mark-Walter@t-online.de wrote: > The problem occur's when I connect to messenger (msn). MSN is a proprietary network (poorly) maintained by a rather large corporation from Redmond in Washington, USA. As such, developers of third-party clients for the network, such as Gaim, are at the mercy of the whims of said corporation. When it decides to change the protocol, connections from clients using an old protocol may or may not be accepted by the network servers. The Gaim developers are forced to figure out how the new (usually undocumented) protocol works and release an updated version of Gaim. > My system is based on debian woody. Woody is the former stable version of Debian. It was replaced in June 2005 by Sarge. You need to upgrade to enjoy more current software and, more importantly, for security reasons. Instructions (for systems based on the Intel x86 architecture or its clones) are available here: http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html Note that the only upgrades to Debian Stable (currently "Sarge") between releases are security-related. Therefore, issues like the one described above may occur even if your system is fully updated. The debian-volatile project aims to address this: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-volatile/ 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/ -- Alex Nordstrom http://lx.n3.net/ Please do not CC me in followups; I am subscribed to debian-user.
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