IM gateways?

[Jon M. Hanson]

It allows you to keep using an AOL Instant Messenger account, for  
example, if you still have people on that service that you need to  
keep in contact with and you already have an account.
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On Apr 7, 2009, at 6:43 PM, Kurt Granroth wrote:

> Has anybody here used an IM gateway and, if so, what is their purpose?
>
> I've been playing around with the OpenFire jabber server lately (very
> slick, btw) and one of its features is an IM Gateway.  It allows you  
> to
> communicate with non-jabber IM servers (like AIM, Messenger, etc)
> through this gateway.
>
> As far as I can tell, though, you still have to register with the
> "parent" server.  That is, if you want to communicate with an AIM  
> user,
> you'll still need to create an AIM account.
>
> This is completely separate from jabber federation.  I can  
> communication
> with GTalk users just fine via my OpenFire server without having to
> register with Google at all.
>
> For the other services, though... what's the point?  If you have to
> register anyway, why not just access those services directly?
>
> Anybody know what I'm missing?
> Kurt
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