[JDEV] How is aol blocking ?

[Dave Smith]

No, they're blocking IP addresses..as far as i know.

Diz

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:44:50PM -0800, Bill Ataras wrote:
> How is aol blocking? I can see blocking everything from jabber.com. But
> blocking 100's or 1000's of IP addresses? No. So they're changing the
> protocol. But how can they do this such that their legit aim client survives
> and libfaim dies? Are they sending native code to execute in their aim
> client? How can they tell libfaim is talking to them and not their own aim
> client?
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jdev-admin at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-admin at jabber.org]On Behalf Of
> > Jens Alfke
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 2:04 PM
> > To: jdev at jabber.org
> > Subject: Re: [JDEV] why the new version of the AIM Transport is
> > stillbeing rejected by AOL?
> >
> >
> > Dixon Canario <dixtigger at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Anyone Knows why the new version of the AIM Transport is
> > > sending this message isn't this suppose to be fixed or is
> > > aol now doing to Jabber.org the same that they did to
> > > Odigo.com ???
> >
> > The friendly folks at AOL late last week started blocking libfaim (used in
> > gaim and Fire as well as presumably the Jabber AIM transport).
> >
> > Top of tree gaim sources (at sourceforge.net) generally have the latest
> > workarounds. You'll have to dig into the oscar subtree, most
> > likely. Last I
> > heard there was a new block added yesterday but as of this
> > morning gaim had
> > a workaround. This tit-for-tat cycle is likely to continue since AOL has
> > infinite resources to throw at it and no more reason to be interested in
> > openness (courtesy of the FCC).
> >
> > "ALL YOUR BUDDY ARE BELONG TO US"  --AOL
> >
> > --Jens
> >
> >
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