> > > > > > > > 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, I understand. But the problem is that such a scheme allows easy IP blocking by for example AOL.

> > > If you moved the transport to the client, that wouldn't work anymore.

> > exactly. But you'd be trusting your credentials with a client..

> What do you mean?
> Which credentials?

it would all be plaintext.

but anyway, it is possible to make a client robot. The fortune-cookie one might be easiest to break our teeth on. Interested?

> > I am planning on playing with jabber to make clients that are actually robots, and this 'connector' might be an example of that