[JDEV] Request for comments on system using jabber

[Adam Fritzler]

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. (mid at activebuddy.com)