How can I easily add friends on MSN and Yahoo IM services?

I understand that you can use Jabber to communicate with friends on other services, but it's not spelled out what server settings to use when adding them into iChat. Can somebody please tell me step by step how to set these up?
Thank You!

Hi,
You don't need to know them.
You need a Jabber ID an a Public Jabber server.
You need a "Transport" - effectively a gateway - on a Jabber Server that converts the Jabber service chat to an MSN or other service chat, (Those transports know the Address and log on to the respective servers). This Transport can be be on the same Jabber server above or a another one as long as it too is Public.
iChat does not connect directly to an MSN Server or a Yahoo One.
If you have a Gmail account you have a Jabber name already that can be used in iChat and you can log in to the GoogleTalk service which is a Jabber Server.
You will still need Transports somewhere.
http://www.jabber.org.au/ichat This site tells you how to Register on Line and create a Jabber account and use it in iChat
This is transferable to any Jabber Server that allows On-line registration in a web browser.
http://allforces.com/2005/05/06/ichat-to-msn-through-jabber/ This site tell you how to set up the Transport and about Third party apps like PSi to register Jabber ID's via an Jabber app where the Jabber Server doe not on-line registration
Of course you need to know what Public Jabber Servers do Transports.
List http://www.jabber.org/network/oldnetwork.shtml
All these links are here http://www.ralphjohnsuk.dsl.pipex.com/page5.html#_jabber
Further down this page are aMSN links and Mercury Messenger which are third party apps that can join the MSN network.
Further down the page are these listing and other apps that can join multiple services to text chat like AdiumX
7:25 PM Saturday; August 11, 2007

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