On Tuesday 17 April 2007, skieros wrote:
> On Apr 17, 9:43 pm, stpeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Apr 17, 12:07 pm, skieros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Isnt Jabber a new instant messageing protocol
> >
> > It's not quite new, since it's been around since 1999.
> >
> > > that people need to have
> > > a mail address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] in order to be able to use it?
> >
> > No. To use Jabber, you get a Jabber ID. Your ID can be hosted at any
> > Jabber server, not only the jabber.org server
>
> Can you further explain that please and also how Jabber differentiate
> form other IM protocols?

Jabber is open source, and the Internet standard protocol for instant 
messaging.  It uses a well documented XML stream to pass messages as opposed 
to some proprietary protocol..

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Paul Johnson
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