On 7/16/06, Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My sister wants to chat with MS Windows users who use a chat >> program called `messenger'. >> Can she do that using Debian GNU/Linux, and will any IRC client >> be fine? A command line tool would be better, as `ircii'.
"Kelly Clowers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > MSN Messenger is not related to IRC, but their are a couple ways > to communicate with people that use MSN Messenger. > > One is to use a multi-protocol IM program such as Gaim or Kopete. > They can connect to many different protocols, including AIM, ICQ, > Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger. > > The other way is to use the Jabber network. Jabber is a free and > open IM network (the others are proprietary, and unofficial clients > like Gaim and Kopete work only because someone reverse > engineered the protocol). Any Jabber client can connect to any > Jabber server and in addition many Jabber servers have Gateways > that can connect to the other IM services. > > Jabber clients for Linux include Psi, Gabber2, Kopete and Gaim. > There is some info on using gateways here: > http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber#Finding_Gateways > > You mention command line clients; I thought there weren't any > MSN command line clients but I was wrong. There is gtmess > and MSNre and Centericq, which is multi-protocol. Command > line Jabber clients include Cabber and IMcom. Thanks for your exhaustive and precious help. I've been trying many of the above tools. I confess that it's not clear to me what the advantage should be in using Jabber with its more or less complicated system of gateways instead of Gaim or other multi-protocol IM client that connect "natively" to ICQ or MSN in a more direct and simple way. I'm not stating the latter are best, just that maybe the Jabber network is a more advanced tool but I haven't catched in all my tests where its superiority stands. Can anyone point this out? Thanks, Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
