[JDEV] AIM- who needs AOL? (was Re: AOL)

[Jeremy Lunn]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:07:07PM -0600, jabber at msg.net wrote:
> Speaking of AIM, has anybody considered writing a 'reverse AIM proxy',
> an application that would allow the AIM client to talk to what looks like an
> AIM server, but actually just is a translator to a Jabber server? This would
> let AIM users talk to Jabber using the same AIM client software the use today,
> with just a change of the server name in the configuration file.

I don't know why you'd want to do this.  You'd loose support for many
Jabber specific things and you wouldn't have control over the client.

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Jeremy Lunn
Melbourne, Australia
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