[49119] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How important is IM? was RE: How important is the PSTN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Tue Jun 25 15:24:44 2002
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:24:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: "Christopher J. Wolff" <chris@bblabs.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <ALECJLKGJPLDJKMJGGMFIEJJCPAA.chris@bblabs.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:
> So my question for the group is, do chat programs (IM, IRC, yahoo) serve a
> substantial network support purpose or are they more of a distraction,
> allowing staff to communicate with friends, relatives, drifters, interlopers
> on company time?
We find IRC and IM invaluable. Set up a private irc server behind the
firewall, and use crypto-hard ICQ like licq. (if you use windoze you are
probably out of luck though)
-Dan
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