Re: does gaim do anything for you?

[Greg Schade <greg ordo net>]

I Don't know too much about cable modems (DSL and all that) but if you're
using ATT you are behind a proxy server.  Several friends of mine
(including my father) have found ways around the proxy server.  If you want
more information about how the by passed it I can contact them to find out
how they did it.


> My daughter wants to use AOL Instant messenger. I don't know what it is,
> but I signed her up and installed gaim from the helixcode distribution.
> It takes the name/password and starts up, but nothing happens.  We have
> friends who say they are online and we try to send them a message. gaim
> responds "user is not available."  But we call them at that instant, and
> they say they are there.
>
> Possibly a related gaim problem is that, in the Online window, it shows
> the names of the lists, but it won't show the names of any of the
> buddies within the list.
>
> I've downloaded the aim-beta client from AOL and get basically the same
> results, it cannot find any users.  The aol client logs into the OSCAR
> server, while with gaim I've tried both OSCAR and TOC.
>
> I'm wondering if I'm behind some kind of proxy server or something. I've
> got a cable modem, but I don't know that any firewall exists at the
> cable company.
>
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