Journal Stanley Feinbaum's Journal: why does slashdot lack an msn messenger option? 1
I was editing my preferences today and I noticed that slashdot does not have an MSN option in the user preferences. I saw icq, aim (both owned by the evil AOL), jabber (what the hell is that!?), but no msn!
Considering msn is an extremely popular IM program, it is foolish for slashdot to leave it out! You can contact me on msn though, my msn account is the same as my posted email...
jabber (Score:2)
Jabber is an xml-based instant messaging protocol over TCP. it provides for many, *many* features that most instant messaging systems do not provide, such as presence from different devices and locations, communications over secure sockets and much more.
The people who wrote the protocol set-up an actual implementation of their protocol in the form of a server which people can connect to in order to meet with other people, and client software for various platforms such as windows, different flavors of unix, linux and BSD. Other developers also have developed their own clients and integrated support for jabber in already-existing multi-IM clients.
that's all i'll say for now.
i'm feeling lazy.
you sound *so* full of yourself in your profile. u need to fucking fix this. u were never exactly popular in high-school, were you?
no offense ;]
cheers.