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Re: ERC or TNT


From: Pascal Bourguignon
Subject: Re: ERC or TNT
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:31:20 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Marc Tfardy <m-t-o___CUT_IT___@web.de> writes:

> op132650c@mail.telepac.pt schrieb:
>> Hi everyone,
>> What is the difference between an IRC and an Instant Messaging? They
>> don't do
>> the same thing?
>> I can't configure "ERC - Emacs IRC Chat" or "AOL TNT AIM for emacs"
>> to work with
>> the server messenger.hotmail.com:1863. How can i solve this problem?
>> The messengers server that AOL, Google, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc, uses
>> the same
>> communication protocol? Or each referred messengers is incompatible with the
>> others?
>
> I think, you jumble two different things. ERC is an IRC client.
> It has nothing to do with IM. For ERC you need an IRC server,
> not an "messenger server".

However, with erc, you can connect to an IRC/AOL/MSN gateway 
such as im.bitlbee.org


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