> > > > > > > > > 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.
Yes, but you run the client yourself, so what would be the problem?
> but anyway, it is possible to make a client robot. The fortune-cookie one might be easiest to break our teeth on. Interested?
Unfortunately I'm still busy with XWIF.