Yeah was not sure if it would be a good plan to try to dev it into the more universal pidgin app but just an FYI. I just guess the sales alias works on most webservers. That is cool XMPP is out there for manipulation of source code j/k
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:43 PM, David Woolley <[email protected]>wrote: > Zeb Cameron wrote: > >> Why not just add skype and gamespy arcade IM networks? >> > > The Paypal payment link and blunderbuss addressing to functional addresses > makes me wonder if this is genuine. The presence of sales@ indicates a > total failure to understand the nature of Pidgin. However, as a serious > reply: > > Pidgin contains code for protocols not services. Facebook and Google are > special purpose aliases to the underlying XMPP protocol, because of their > extreme popularity and lack of user understanding of the nature of the > underlying protocol. Many other protocols are unique to one service. > > If gamespy uses a standard protocol, in particular XMPP, then nothing > needs to be done to Pidgin. Either you or gamespy need to publish the > configuration parameters. > > If they use a proprietary protocol, you will need to provide a pointer to > where technical details of the protocol can be found in the public domain > (from a confidentiality point of view). You will then need to convince an > existing or new developer, that it is a good use of their skills and time > to write the code to work with that protocol. As a minor player, if they > are not using XMPP, they probably don't want third party clients, like > Pidgin, to be used. > > If you don't know what the protocol is, you can't really expect existing > developers to know. > > Please note that support@ is a public, peer support, mailing list. > -- > David Woolley > Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. > RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, > that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work. > -- Please try osticket the #1 Free web comment box and ticket system. If you want to donate you may from this link also https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=ZAN42XP569W2J -- Zeb N. Cameron 360-823-9101 nccomputers.com http://www.myspace.com/zebcameron http://www.facebook.com/zebcameron http://cellecast.com/profile.htm?userid=1203
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