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Nick Kew wrote:
And where is the unreliability of Jabber derived from - is this becuase the protocols are flawed or becuae a gratuit server is unlikely to give reliable service when busy?I'm surprised at you! You should know that all reliable implementations of the 'net's core services are free, or very closely derived from free s/w.
It doesn't stop free servers becoming overloaded in any instance.
But certainly when I used Jabber, the Client software available for *X gave the impression of being less than mature. OTOH, that's going back a while.
It's looked of mixed maturity when I last played. I got an impression of unreliability, but I think that was mainly where the software was trying to utilise multiple backend IM systems, and it looks like some of the proprietary providers don't want people plugging into their branded services with unbranded clients, and some of the gateways to those services were in various states of disrepair. Straight Jabber to Jabber seemed to work reasonably well..... -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.