Re: Message Routing Philosophy - IM model

On Feb 1, 2004, at 4:30 PM, Doug Royer wrote:

>
> I run a jabber server. If you look at the implementations
> you will find that they still work as hubs for connected
> users. They are not point to point.
>

But unlike AIM or MSN, it's a distributed model, not a single 
monolithic setup. And in reality, it isn't infeasible to make it point 
by point by building a jabber server into every client, where with AIM 
and MSN or yahoo chat, that's not possible.