Fwd: AIM <--> Google Talk Federation

[Colin Barrett]

This is pretty sweet. Anything we need to / can do on the Adium side?

-Colin

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Mark Doliner <mark at kingant.net>
> Date: May 16, 2011 12:41:06 AM PDT
> To: Pidgin Devel Mailing List <devel at pidgin.im>, openim at imfreedom.org
> Subject: Re: AIM <--> Google Talk Federation
> 
> The interoperation magically started working for me.  It's so neat!
> 
> AIM users can IM "whoever at gmail.com."  The first IM will fail to go
> through and the Google Talk user will get an authorization request.
> After the auth request is accepted, messages from the AIM user to the
> Google Talk user go through.  And Google Talk users can IM
> "screenname at aol.com" or "email(domain.com)@aol.com"
> 
> IMs go through immediately.  Even status messages and typing
> notifcation appear to get translated between the two protocols.
> 
> If you've registered a gmail.com account as your AIM screen name, and
> an IM user IMs "whatever at gmail.com," messages go to both, for the most
> part.
> 
> --Mark
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