From: fallenpegasus	Date: June 25th, 2004 09:23 pm (UTC)		(Link)

You chose, download, and install a Jabber IM client. (One of the best clients for Windows, IMO, is "Trillian", because it's "multiprotocol", you can keep all your AOL, ICQ, YM, MSN, and Jabber IM'ing in one program in one place.) Trillian is not freeware, but it's not expensive and it's a rightious company.

Once you have a Jabber client, register for a Jabber account.

	From: fallenpegasus	Date: June 25th, 2004 09:29 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Well, what you do is first persuade them to change clients without changing services. Gaim, Trillian, or Fire. For `nix, `doze, and Mac, respectively. Other than the "value added" services that the "native clients" provide (like pushing ads on the user), they are better clients than the native clients.

Once you get them used to that, then persuade them to move to jabber, and they don't have to change clients.


And yes, you have to trust the jabber server operator, just like you have to trust the SMTP server operator. But those operators are not AOL or Microsoft, which is a big plugs to begin with. And most jabber server implementations do TLS transparently, and more and more jabber clients do transparent end-to-end client-to-client encryption.

From: ex_cerebrate131	Date: June 28th, 2004 05:52 am (UTC)		(Link)

And yes, you have to trust the jabber server operator, just like you have to trust the SMTP server operator. But those operators are not AOL or Microsoft, which is a big plugs to begin with.

I'm not sure that would necessarily follow, at least for me.

And most jabber server implementations do TLS transparently, and more and more jabber clients do transparent end-to-end client-to-client encryption.

Now this would be the thing I'm missing.