Re: friend cannot see me on msn
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Andreas Berglund
<andreas.berglund@home.se> wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
>>
>> Andreas Berglund wrote:
>>>
>>> I just added a friend of mine on msn. I can see her and I can send
>>> messages to her but when I'm online it looks to her like I'm offline
>>> and none of her messages reach me. She tried to send an invitation to
>>> me several times but none of them reached me. I have no idea where to
>>> even begin looking so any help would be very much appreciated.
>>> The client I'm using is kopete 0.12.3, I don't know what client my
>>> friend uses but if you need to know I can ask her and I'd be happy to
>>> provide any other information that might be relevant.
>>
>> MSN was obsoleted years ago when XMPP became the standard for IM. Have
>> you considered joining us in this millennium and dropping the
>> proprietary IM systems entirely?
>
>
> Actually I haven't considered that ;-), at least not yet. I'm not a frequent
> user of IM so I have not kept up with developments in the field for a long
> time. Would that allow me to keep in touch with people on MSN cause there's
> no way I'm gonna be able to get my friend to switch?
XMPP has server-side transports that act as gateways to MSN, AIM, etc.
These work for basic messaging, but I suspect you will be out of luck if
you like to use voice or video. I don't know if other things like "x is typing"
messages, current music, etc are supported on transports.
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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