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Re: How important is IM? was RE: How important is the PSTN

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Barton)
Tue Jun 25 17:15:37 2002

Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:14:28 -0700
From: Doug Barton <DougB@yahoo-inc.com>
To: jlewis@packetnexus.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Jason Lewis wrote:

> 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.

Would a secure (probably via SSL) chat client be considered a valuable
item in this sphere? (Note, blatant self interest involved in this
question, feel free to respond off list.)  

While I'm posting anyway, I wanted to thank the various people here who
inspired the .sig below...  it's already getting laughs around here.  

Finally, an aside to Jane.... never complain about a quiet list. See
what happens? :)

-- 
  Doug Barton, Yahoo! DNS Administration and Development

         You can have it done fast, done cheap, or done right.  Pick
two.

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