[37318] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Instant chats and central servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Shaw)
Tue May 8 22:57:45 2001
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 22:54:42 -0400
From: David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 07:53:38PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Try Jabber; they have servers.
>=20
> And, it can also talk to AIM, MSN, etc, although AOL is currently trying
> to make that stop working.
One more thing to try: Gale (www.gale.org). Built-in public key
crypto - everyone has a key, messages are automatically encrypted,
etc. It even comes with a Zephyr gateway for any MIT folks. :)
David
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