[JDEV] The Important Things

Peter Saint-Andre stpeter at jabber.org
Fri Jan 11 15:23:14 CST 2002


Well, I guess "AFAIK" was not very much in my case. :)

Peter

--
Peter Saint-Andre
email+jabber: stpeter at jabber.org
web: http://www.saint-andre.com/

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Ragavan S wrote:

> 
> >AFAIK, the Disney client is proprietary so you'd probably have to buy the
> >source from them in order to point it to your own server (I assume their
> >client is hardcoded to point at im.go.com).
> 
> Hmmm.. I remember using the Go Messenger to connect to any server (including 
> jabber.org, my own server among others). The version I used was 1.0.0.25, 
> but eventually had to give it up, since it didn't support SSL. So, AFAIK, 
> no, there is no hardcoding.
> 
> >
> >Also AFAIK you cannot talk to people on other servers from your account on
> >im.go.com (i.e., they do not have server-to-server turned on). If you ask
> >me that kind of defeats the purpose of the Jabber *network*, but hopefully
> >they'll see the light at some point (perhaps once more big servers come
> >online).
> 
> My above statement kinda makes this moot, cos if you can connect to 
> jabber.org, then you can talk to any server that talk to jabber.org, or 
> something like that :-)
> 
> Hold on... ok. I just connected to jabber.org using the Go messenger.
> 
> HTH,
> Ragavan
> 
> 
> >On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Aaron McBride wrote:
> >
> > > Ok, I just checked out Disney's IM client.  It looks like a nice setup, 
> >and
> > > it might be something I'd use, unfortunately it looks like it's not
> > > connected (S2S) with the rest of the Jabber network.  This is pretty 
> >much
> > > the same complaint we've been having about AOL and MS.  I'm wondering... 
> >is
> > > there any way to bring pressure on Disney to open up their client to 
> >allow
> > > you to communicate with users on other servers?  (I assume this wouldn't
> > > even involve a change to the client.)
> > >
> > > If I'm wrong about it not working with other servers... oops. :)  But
> > > that's the way it looks to me.
> > >
> > > -Aaron
> > >
> > > At 11:58 AM 1/11/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> > > ><clip>
> > > >If you want to see some beginning extremely large rollouts, look at 
> >Disney
> > > >http://im.go.com or iwon
> > >
> > > ><clip>
> > > >_______________________________________________
> > > >jdev mailing list
> > > >jdev at jabber.org
> > > >http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > jdev mailing list
> > > jdev at jabber.org
> > > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
> > >
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >jdev mailing list
> >jdev at jabber.org
> >http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _________________________________________________________________
> Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
> 
> _______________________________________________
> jdev mailing list
> jdev at jabber.org
> http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
> 




More information about the JDev mailing list