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Google Reinstates Federated Jabber/XMPP Instant Messaging

Posted by Soulskill on from the credit-where-credit-is-due dept.

jrepin writes "A few weeks ago the FSF reported that Google had started blocking invites sent from non-Google Jabber servers. This was done as a crude anti-spam measure. Google have since rolled out proper anti-spam filtering for its Jabber service, and has removed the invite block. This was announced a few days ago in a public mailing list post. This means that users of all Jabber servers will once again be able to fully communicate with Google users."

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  1. Re:Glad to know federated IM will work again by ledow · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not hard. Barely takes ten minutes. We use one in work, tied to our domain.

    Install Openfire on your servers (Windows/Linux). Set it up. Install Pidgin on your clients (or whatever you want to use). Set them up.
    Stick a SRV record in your DNS (optional, the above is fine for an internal system).
    Done.

  2. Re:Can you trust Google, when you are the product? by Chrisq · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Google has shown that they will take away the free services they offer at any time, or even increase the advertising in them to make them almost unusable to some (such as Google Maps).

    Really? Maybe its regional but I haven't noticed obtrusive advertising on google maps.