Some messenger protocols being blocked?

[Pete Brown]

Chris
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:53:21 am Chris Jones wrote:
> Funny enough Pete, I tried using Jabber protocol through GAIM and even
> that doesn't work.

i am assuming you have a registered account?
the jabber.org server occasionally goes down for maintenance (i am pretty sure 
that happened recently)

if you are having problems with all your chat accounts there may be some other 
problem with GAIM itself.


>
> Chris Jones
>
> On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 10:28 +1000, Pete Brown wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:23:25 am Chris Jones wrote:
> > > I am having issues connecting to the MSN protocol using GAIM. I have
> > > been trying for several weeks now to no avail. A reliable source told
> > > me that Microsoft have begun blocking users who try and use the MSN
> > > protocol with a third-party client. i.e. GAIM. Is this true? And if so,
> > > how long would it be before other companies do the same thing such as
> > > ICQ and Yahoo?
> >
> > it has happend occasionally with MSN and yahoo already and since ICQ is
> > owned by AOL it wouldn't surprise me.
> > it depends on the client and what library that client uses for
> > connection. its because the libraries are reverse engineered and if the
> > protocol gets changed it has to be figured out again.
> > the best way to avoid it is to convince the people you chat with to use
> > something that actually uses an open protocol.
> > the most well know of these is google talk which uses the jabber protocol
> > which in my opinion the best chat protocol around, though calling it a
> > chat protocol is a little limiting since it does a whole lot more these
> > days. (yeah i have been using jabber for almost as long as it has
> > existed)



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