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Sitting on a bench outside the coffee shop this afternoon, I think I finally figured out how Jabber instant messaging can be connected to Hep.  I’m putting my thoughts up here for comments.   This is a first draft.  Let me know what you think.

1. You create a Jabber account.  Say joesmith@jabber.org
2. You set up some message destinations in Hep:  your weblog, your advogato diary.
3. Hep will log into Jabber using your account, once for itself, and once for each destination you’ve got set up.  For each login it uses a different Jabber resource: joesmith@jabber.org/Hep, joesmith@jabber.org/Weblog, joesmith@jabber.org/Advogato.
4. You give Hep a list of Jabber accounts it should allow posts to come from.
5. Now anyone can send messages to joesmith@jabber.org/Hep.  These messages go to your Hep Inbox.  The /Weblog and /Advogato connections only accept messages from the accounts you’ve specified.  These messages get routed to the appropriate destinations.