[Adium-devl] Fwd: adiumxtras site

[Colin Barrett]

I just got my email back up today (thanks, Mail.app cache!), and I  
found this in my inbox.

Any one have any clue what this is?

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Buckingham" <chrisb at csr.net>
> Date: February 24, 2007 8:27:24 AM PST
> To: <colin at adiumx.com>
> Subject: adiumxtras site
> Reply-To: chrisb at csr.net
>
> Hi.
>
> Recently I downloaded Adium to try it instead of Proteus, so far I
> find the configurability just as good. In order to get more visual
> versatility I tried to go to the recommended extras site
> adiumxtras.com.
>
> There was a problem connecting and on further research I found that
> when I try to connect to the extras site it forwards to the site
> redux.adiumx.com (75.126.12.28), which tries to initiate a
> connection back to me on a high port (49000 - 54000 TCP). Can you
> explain this and why this system needs to initiate a seperate
> connection to me instead of just responding to my browser request
> (stateful)?
>
> Many thanks,
> Christopher Buckingham