YOu had mentioned being behind a masq'ing firewall, so I assumed you had
something set up in your firewall to prevent connections to AIM.
As to real time conversations...nothing beats the telephone.
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Michael R. Jinks wrote:
> Mike Burger wrote:
> >
> > GAIM, and a few others...there was also a Java based AIM client.
>
> Great. Thanks.
>
> > Then, you just need to open the firewall to AIM traffic.
>
> "Open the firewall" in what sense? As long as GAIM-or-whatever
> initiates the connection, and as long as it stays on a single port,
> we're fine. Do we need to be able to support some sort of incoming
> connection for this wretched thing?
>
> > I'm not sure I understand why they can't let you use email to talk to
> > them.
>
> This is for real time conversations, but yeah, there are so many
> alternatives (uh, IRC?), but for some reason they insist.
>
> Mine is not to reason why...
>
> -m
>
> > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Michael R. Jinks wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings. We have a client who insists on using AOL instant messenger,
> > > and insists that we use it to talk to them. Sigh.
> > >
> > > Given that we are mostly on Linux desktops, that we don't use AOL as our
> > > ISP, and that we're behind a masq'ing firewall, how might we comply with
> > > this requirement? I seem to remember some discussion of Linux clients
> > > for AIM some while back, but AOL wasn't cooperating, or some such... can
> > > anyone offer tips?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -m
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