Jabber Clients...

[Alma J Wetzker]

Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.
That is the way my gaim client works and the way yahoo messenger works on 
windows.  You type and when you hit enter, it blasts everything out to the room.

> 
>>
>> 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.

Of course it is, I just believe that phone conferences are better.  I can't 
think of a situation where communication can't be handled better by phone 
and/or email.  The places where truly time critical communication occur 
usually involve the executive band.

     -- Alma