[JDEV] Theoretic.com Now Blocked

[Kevin Smathers]

Hi Peter,

These aren't quite the same thing.  Running a personal server means 
managing the server, managing logins, managing security, and managing 
transports.  This is quite a bit more complex than installing and 
running a client.

Cheers,
-kls

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:17:09AM -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> Right now you can already register with an AIM gateway on a server other
> than the one you're connected to, by discovering what agents exist on that
> server and then registering with those agents. Connecting to your "home"
> server in no way prevents one from connecting to resources on other
> servers.
> 
> Peter
> 
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Kevin Smathers wrote:
> 
> > The only solution I can think of is to move the AOL transport out to
> > the client.  Actually the ability to open multiple simultaneous server
> > connections from the client would solve another problem for me as well;
> > I regularly need to work with both internal and external Jabber servers.
> > 
> > Then you could treat the AIM transport as just another Jabber server
> > cluster as far as the client is concerned (albeit one with a closed
> > set of participants).  I suppose there is an issue of transparency,
> > especially when the user is offline, but AIM like Jabber will I think
> > queue messages for users not currently online.  That part should be
> > solvable.
> > 
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