A reader wrote in to point me to this information on the news site for Adium, another AIM client: “It looks like AOL shut down their TOC server at toc.oscar.aol.com.” The author also reports that connecting to java-aim-vip-m.blue.aol.com at port 5190 mostly works.
Actually, I just tried it and it looks like toc.oscar is back up. But it’s good to know about other people who are providing alternatives to the commercial client–especially ones that provide source code.
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