I just stumbled across this nice free jabber server

http://jabber.me

They have all kinds of transports and pubsub installed and you can even point your own domain there. Not sure what the gotcha is yet, looks like it is the same people as flosoft.biz, maybe someone can pipe up and say why not to use this, seems a perfect fit for all of us with maemo and its native jabber support

Oh, for those that don't know a transport is like a serverside component that will _transport_ your jabber xml stanzas back and forth to some other chat network service like msn or icq or whatever, so if you are signed into your jabber account you will also be on those others. You need a jabber client with Service Discovery support like Psi http://psi-im.org to register the transports to your account

There are loads of those, see for example these lists :-)

wow, cool, any one that y'all recommend above another?

Not really, I run my own server so I haven't used any of them seriously (I have a few dummy accounts for testing here and there). Having said that, jabber.org always seems to be up when I need it these days.