[JDEV] MSN will stop supporting old MSN Messenger protocol

[Andrew Sayers]

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On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:55:40PM +0100, David 'TheRaven' Chisnall wrote:
> This could be a great opportunity for Jabber.  All of the feedback I've 
> had from people on my roster who have upgraded to 6 has been along the 
> lines of `DON'T INSTALL MSN MESSENGER 6!', promptly followed by them 
> migrating back to 5...

Actually, this is a serious threat to Jabber.  It sounds like they're
dropping support for versions 7 and below of the protocol, which means
the current transport.  In other words, we have until October 15th to
produce a whole new transport running protocol version 8 or above, which
I just can't do on my own.

If you are a Jabber programmer interested in seeing an MSN transport
that works in 2 months time, it's *urgent* that you contact me.  I can
do the Messenger stuff, but I need someone else to handle the Jabber
end.

	- Andrew
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