> > > > 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?

'transports' are not clients. Transports are plugins to the server IIRC

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

> Why do you need the domain if your only using the server for yourself?

your address being olafvdspek@195.34.34.120 might work too. Fixed domain name, or fixed ip address. *something* that doesn't change..

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

> > 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.