[JDEV] JIT - ICQ Transport release

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On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Matthias Wimmer wrote:

> I wouldn't use an ICQ transport that uses direct connections. If you
> have more then a few people using the transport this would open to much
> ports.

Why are too many ports bad?

On the other side, I can perfectly understand AOL blocking ICQ/AIM
transports not supporting direct connections for this causes a lot more
traffic for their servers. And as a user I don't want all of my messages
passing through AOL servers for privacy reasons.

Is JIT's inability to create direct connections by design?- As far as I
saw in libicq2000 code, direct connections should be easy to implement.
Don't know how easy it is in this special case though.

Regards