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[Dave Warren]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:57:30 -0700, Evan Platt <evan at espphotography.com>
was claimed to have wrote:

>On 4/27/2010 11:25 AM, Dave Warren wrote:
>> AIM allows multiple connections, edit an AIM account and look under the
>> Advanced tab for a "Allow multiple simultaneous logins"
>>
>> Virtually all XMPP services allow multiple connections.
>>
>> MSN does, although pidgin doesn't support it at this time.
>>
>> Yahoo does in a limited fashion, I believe you're allowed one mobile and
>> one desktop device at the same time, although it might only be the Yahoo
>> SMS gateway or similar.  I haven't used Yahoo in some time, so I can't
>> speak authoritatively on this one.
>>
>> IRC allows multiple connections, although typically they need different
>> nicks.  However, if you use a bouncer, multiple connections to one nick
>> are possible too.
>>    
>Hmm.. I stand (sit?) corrected. I swear, I tried the AIM option once and 
>it didn't work, but this was a while back.
>
>I'll have to try it again.

I can attest to the fact that it does work because until I noticed that
option, I was constantly getting IMs from AIM telling me I'm online from
multiple locations, and how to boot other sessions whenever I jumped
from my desktop to mobile.