> ICQ/AOL gateway is down permanently until AOL's parent company (or is AOL the parent company?) accepts jabber. The AOL/ICQ servers have blocked the jabber server's IP address making the transports unable to log in.

AOL-Time-Warner is a massive conglomerate, with all the same concerns in the geek community over monopoly that Microsoft attracts.

> This means that while the programs have the ability to interact, Aol will not allow it so they are effectively not compatible.

> MSN gateway still works. Suprising MS hasn't taken the same stand. :)

bound to be political, or maybe the fact that there aren't so many MSN users migrating to Jabber, they just haven't noticed yet.

AOL is under legal pressure to make its instant messaging tools interoperate with the competition (IIRC), so it choose to all groupwise or something to access it. Clearly not a massive userbase!

> check out http://support.jabber.com for more details IIRC.