Operation Manual

About Jabber
Jabber works in much the same way that E-Mail does. There are hundreds of Jabber servers through
which a client program can connect. Each Jabber user has his or her own account with one of many
Jabber services. When a message is sent, the message goes from that person's computer to his or
her nominated Jabber server. This server then sends the message to the recipient's nominated
Jabber server.
This way, the Jabber network can not be "down", whereas if the MSN server goes down for
maintenance, then all MSN users in the world will be disconnected, if one of the decentralized
Jabber server goes down, only the users registered to that server are affected.