On Fri, 25 May 2001, Jens Alfke wrote:
> In the IM bot realm, the existence of ActiveBuddy <www.activeBuddy.com>
> disproves your argument. Since their bots are available on today's
> monolithic IM systems like AIM and Yahoo, they are obviously not running
> their own servers since those services don't support multiple servers.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Thats not _exactly_ true. MSN Messenger does a seperate connection for
every conversation, which are usually on different servers. MSN
explicitly scales, in that manner (at the extreme expense of client
simplicity, IMHO).
> Their bots log into AIM or Yahoo just like a client (and that raises the
> interesting question of why AOL isn't trying to block them. Perhaps they
> have some kind of special deal.)
They have tried to do such blocking. We were not immune. I have always
found ways around it. (grep the libfaim source for applicable
comments. Theres several of them.)
As for deals with the Big Three, I explicitly cannot comment.
af. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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