Hi & thanks for the replies.
It sounds like I misunderstood Pidgin's ability.
I have used pidgin thus: @hotmail to chat with an @yahoo, so figured
from what I read I should be able to use it to chat to @gmail friends.
Is it intended to work this way?
On 30/11/2010 18:49, David Woolley wrote:
Etan Reisner wrote:
How do I fix this?
Are you trying to add an @gmail.com buddy to your Yahoo account's buddy
list? If so, do you know that that @gmail.com account is a valid Yahoo
account? (Does Yahoo even support such a thing?)
You cannot add random email addresses to your Yahoo (or MSN, etc.)
accounts.
I think what you mean is that you cannot chat to someone logged into
Google's instant messaging when you are only logged into, say, MSN's.
However I would expect MSN to allow you to register as an MSN user,
using an @gmail email address. It certainly allowed me to register
using my company domain name address. You would only receive chats from
MSN and their peers, even though you used an @gmail address.
Instant messaging is like X.400 email was, when email was led by
commerce and before the DoD led internet email protocol became the de
facto standard, partly because it was not restricted to one operator.
Although it may not be entirely obvious, using a particular IM
service, at least with the official client, benefits its operator
financially.
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