Jabber Clients...

[Net Llama!]

On 03/21/04 19:38, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> 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.

you're confusing IM with irc.

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

the business world is made up of alot more than just executives.


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