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Re: ERC or TNT


From: Anselm Helbig
Subject: Re: ERC or TNT
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:13:20 +0100
User-agent: Wanderlust/2.11.30 (Wonderwall) Emacs/21.4 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI)

At Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:38:45 +0000,
op132650c@mail.telepac.pt wrote:
> 
> 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?

AOL and ICQ use oscar, Google is said to use the jabber protocol, MSN
messenger and Yahoo use their own protocols. IRC is actually a beast
of its own, and predates all of these. 

If more than one of these networks is of importance to you,
and you really want to have your chat client inside emacs, then you
really should consider the combination of bitlbee + some emacs irc
client (like erc, rcirc or circe). These IM-protocols are under
constant change, and there are not so many open source projects that
keep track of that. IRC on the other hand is an internet standard, so
any old IRC-client will connect you to bitlbee.

If you just want a console multi-protocol im-client, maybe CenterICQ
suits your needs. 

I just tried TNT, and it didn't connect me, either. I didn't take the
time to debug that thoroughly. If you're on XEmacs, maybe eICQ works
for you (ICQ uses the same protocol as AIM), but bitlbee would be in
any case the most general solution.

regards, 

Anselm


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