On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Joseph Sinclair
wrote:
> The main advantages of gateways, from my perspective, are twofold:
> 1) Your multiple IM personas are managed server-side, so you connect once
> from any given location and don't have to re-enter all your accounts
> everywhere.
> 2) Gatew
The main advantages of gateways, from my perspective, are twofold:
1) Your multiple IM personas are managed server-side, so you connect once from
any given location and don't have to re-enter all your accounts everywhere.
2) Gateways can connect to additional services that most clients cannot conn
Sure, I have multiple IM accounts for exactly that reason. But pretty
much every IM client out there can support multiple accounts. Why
wouldn't you just manage your multiple accounts in the IM app instead of
routing it through some other service?
I have to be missing something pretty fundamenta
It allows you to keep using an AOL Instant Messenger account, for
example, if you still have people on that service that you need to
keep in contact with and you already have an account.
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Has anybody here used an IM gateway and, if so, what is their purpose?
I've been playing around with the OpenFire jabber server lately (very
slick, btw) and one of its features is an IM Gateway. It allows you to
communicate with non-jabber IM servers (like AIM, Messenger, etc)
through this gatewa
