[CLUE-Tech] Native Yahoo! IM Client for Linux!

[Randy Arabie]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Dave Anselmi wrote:

> Jeffery Cann wrote:
> 
> > I have a friend who works as a programmer for Douglas County.  They use Yahoo
> > IM to communicate at work.  I have also read reports that the number of daily
> > IMs will soon surpass the number of emails.  Many businesses are switching to
> > IM for simple communications.  My friend tells me that his coworkers joke
> > about email being too slow, compared to IM.
> 
> Hmmm...  Any idea about what they say over IM?  One thing I like about email (as
> opposed to the phone, for instance) is that it is easily ignored when
> interruptions are undesirable (like when deep concentration is required).  I've
> never used IM.

Your right there.  I've used IM quite a bit (AIM, MSN, & Yahoo w/ Windoze), and 
until I found out how to disable "auto login" I was frustrated with interruptions. 
People would log in, see I was online, and "pester" me at inconvenient times..

> I assume that Yahoo is a middleman in this.  What's the catch?  Do they say?
> Could a company set up an internal IM service so they don't have potentially
> proprietary information shared with Yahoo?

IM is plain-text messaging.  No confidential information should ever be communicated 
via IM.

Jabber <www.jabber.com & www.jabber.org> is a org / company that has an open-source 
IM server.  I believe their niche is providing corporations with in-house IM solutions.

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Cheers!

Randy

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