Jabber Clients...

[Alma J Wetzker]

Collins Richey wrote:
> 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?
> 

IM (Instant Messaging) is a horribly inefficient form of communication.  You 
type a sentence, hit return, and that sentence is displayed on the client of 
everyone in the chat.

I can't think of a business reason for IM to save my soul.  Most executives 
can't spell and can afford cell phones.

My family is scattered across the country.  We can all type fairly well.  IM 
is a fun way to keep in touch.  There are types of humor that can only be used 
in real time.  IM allows us to have fun in real time.  We do it 2 - 4 times a 
year.

     -- Alma