I rather use Jabber transports instead of a multi-protocol client.
By
Arpad Borsos
on March 03, 2007
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With Jabber transports, all your foreign accounts follow the Jabber ID. When you log into another machine, software, OS, you see all your friends: configure once, use everywhere.
With a multiprotocol IM client, you have to configure ALL your accounts EACH TIME you change machine, software, OS, etc.: configure once, configure everywhere... as many times as the number of accounts you have!
I used to do this for a while; it was nice because I could SSL to my jabber server from unencrypted wireless networks, since none of the commercial IM services care about security.
But it had two main problems: jabber.org had several hours of downtime each week, and transports can't handle anything beyond simple text messaging and presence. (It's bad enough that Pidgin doesn't support voice chat/webcams/games/IMvironments and all the other useless crap that everyone on yahoo want you to use)
Jabber cada dia se vuelve mejor