> > > 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.

> > Wouldn't it be possible to run the transports on your own machine?

> yes. You'd install the server (unsure if this is linux-only?). You'd want a fixed, always-on domain name too.

The way the transport works is like a client on the jabber server. This client logs into the msn server and what it gets back from there it sends throught the wire to the real client (your computer).

> I have been thinking about writing a jabber client that was actually a proxy, but that would take time :(

a http proxy would be good. that way I could use jabber at school. I could go through the http only firewall. :) thats why I got ICQ in the first place. there is a prototype proxt being developed, http://www.jabbercentral.com and search the development section for transports IIRC.

> I wanted to write a 'thought for the day' that let anyone register their presence with it. It would then send them the text of 'fortune' whenever they became 'available'. Nice. You could extend this to trust it with being a gateway between two protocols or even browse-the-web etc too.

You could do this using the headline function. This function used to be used like the little popups of msn letting you know you have just received new mail or someone is online. well it used to. haven't seen it for a long time, must of been diabled. also was the feedback from the msn transport.