[37313] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Instant chats and central servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn McMahon)
Tue May 8 21:37:12 2001
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 19:53:38 -0400
From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105082205330.444-100000@3jane.ashpool.org>; from poptix@poptix.net on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 10:11:07PM +0200
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On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 10:11:07PM +0200, poptix wrote:
>=20
> FYI, there are ICQ servers you can run locally, but
> not for AIM or MSN, I would suggest an IRC server.
IRC pretty much requires you to sit there watching it, and has lots of
other limitations that make it less useful for this purpose than instant
messenging.
Try Jabber; they have servers.
And, it can also talk to AIM, MSN, etc, although AOL is currently trying
to make that stop working.
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