Jabber Clients...

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:57:14 -0500
Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 
> We run jabber at work for our IM solution. The client we decided to
> support is a commercial product named myJabber. 

> Anyways... After a little searching around I find that there's a
> fairly new contender in the jabber client arena named Psi. It can be
> had for free at: http://psi.affinix.com/. Psi is released under the
> GPL. More interesting is that Psi is in the portage source tree...
> Duh!
> 
> What makes this jabber client interesting is, there's a linux, mac and
> windows version that use the QT 3.x graphics libraries. It's simply
> beautiful on all three platforms. It also supports SSL/TSL which is a
> new twist for us and unicode for those that are more comfortable
> language other than English.
> 

Totally <OT> here, but maybe you can satisfy my curiosity in a few brief
statements. What is IM and why does anyone need it?

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver area
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