[clue-tech] CLUE jabber server?

[Angelo Bertolli]

Nate Duehr wrote:

> 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...

Actually, I've eliminated this feeling of guilt.  I don't care anymore, 
I understand my friends do the same, and we're all ok with it.  Sure 
it's still there a little bit.  Actually, before GAIM, I hated IM's 
mostly because on a system like Windows where IM's don't have tabs, they 
pop up in your face when someone says anything.  With GAIM, I just 
immediately open a conversation to myself,  and if anyone sends me a 
message--well they get a response whenever I happen to notice it.  And 
from there, maybe I'll have small snippets of conversation.

I have no issues with blocking people, or invisibility, or just not 
responding.  People are ok with that.  If they're not, they'll probably 
be blocked so I won't know about it.  Actually I like it much better 
than IRC.  With IRC, you're just in this big world of "channels" where 
other people can just look you up and talk to you.

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