On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 12:22:42PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
>On 2/25/06, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> 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 talk to my brother on MSN all the time. I use Psi (
>http://psi-im.org/ ) and jabber.unoc.net. I can talk to people on gtalk
>with unoc.net and I can connect to talk.google.com directly. I am using
>the experimental Psi-voice client so I should be able to use voice chat
>with gtalk users, but I have not tried it yet.
Using gajim myself, and it seems to have problems with the transports.
I've managed to discover Yahoo service in one or two places, but it
always disappear after I restart Gajim :-(
>As far as contacts, I don't know if Jabber can import them or not.
>They may need to be added manually.
The Jabber FAQ mentions that few transports support that.
/M
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