[clue-tech] CLUE jabber server?

[Nate Duehr]

David L. Anselmi wrote:

> Now I know that I'm the Luddite in the group, and getting old fast.  So 
> can anyone give me a specific, detailed example of how IM (or IRC) make 
> your lives better?  Or is it just a "my friends use it so that's the 
> easy way to reach them" thing (s/friends/co-workers/).

Definitely the latter.  The older I get the more annoyed by my IM 
clients I am, but I keep them on, because at work and home, people find 
me easily there.

The one social norm that's annoying about IM is that if you don't have 
your "away" set, or you're not "hidden", if someone sends you an IM and 
you don't respond, you feel guilty for not responding and some people do 
find it rude not to get a reply... so it's very "interrupt-driven".  If 
you're doing a task that really shouldn't be interrupted and an IM comes 
in, it's highly annoying after a while...

The ability to easily do it on even the dumbest of modern mobile devices 
is both useful and sometimes "too connected", but can come in awfully 
handy also... IM someone you KNOW is at their computer (and hope isn't 
busy -- see above annoyance) from your cell phone can be downright handy.

Generally, unless you have a need for a guarantee of some semblance of 
privacy and no one being able to see your message traffic, on an 
INTERNAL chat server... using something like Jabber is more headache to 
set up than it's worth.

IRC differs in that the "channel" allows a multi-user chat as the 
default, and private chats as an add-on, where it's the opposite in most 
IM clients.  Generally the technology is the same general idea, just 
different approaches to the same task -- short text messages via 
keyboard from a network-connected machine.

Nate
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