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...
/M
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