[49123] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How important is IM? was RE: How important is the PSTN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ren)
Tue Jun 25 15:37:46 2002
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:34:59 -0400
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>,
"Christopher J. Wolff" <chris@bblabs.com>
From: ren <ren@internet.rockstar.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206251222330.25380-100000@sasami.anime.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
PGP Corporate Desktop can help with ICQ if you are a Windows user.
-ren, who prefers IRC
At 12:24 PM 6/25/2002 -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
>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
>--
>[-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]
