[49128] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: How important is IM? was RE: How important is the PSTN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Tue Jun 25 15:51:51 2002
From: "Jim Popovitch" <jimpop@rocketship.com>
To: <jlewis@packetnexus.com>, <chris@bblabs.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:47:31 -0400
In-Reply-To: <4515.192.168.120.61.1025033415.squirrel@www.packetnexus.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Lewis
>
>
> Instead of banning, you should be looking into a secure IM client.
> Several companies make secure clients that also link up to the major
> players via a gateway.
>
Trillian is a combined (AIM, Y!, ICQ, IRC) client that supports secure
direct P2P (peer to peer) connections. A Swiss Army Knife of communication!
Btw, isn't it ass-backwards to state that you are establishing a corporate
policy for banning IM, and then ask for feedback on whether or not IM serves
a substantial network support purpose? Seems to me one would do discovery
before creating policy.... ;)
-Jim P.
