On 2/25/06, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. As far as contacts, I don't know if Jabber can import them or not. They may need to be added manually. Kelly Clowers
