Normally, I would immediately judge this kind of thing as fake. That is, until they decided to silently ignore[1] federated XMPP servers, turning gtalk (err, "h

Normally, I would immediately judge this kind of thing as fake. That is, until they decided to silently ignore[1] federated XMPP servers, turning gtalk (err, "hangouts"?) into more of a walled garden. Now, I'm not sure, because if decided to un-federate port 5269/tcp, the idea of doing it to 25/tcp is suddenly plausible. [1] yes, "ignore" - they didn't even bother sending a NAK, so subscription requests end up looking still-pending or lost from the outside