[mdlug] Google Wave invites

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 21:35 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:18:40PM -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> > > Jabber is the better IM protocol.
> > > Of course, both pale in comparison to IRC. :)
> > I like IRC, but so few people use it any more, other than
> > bot-net operators.
> I've actually had my workstation tagged as an infected system because
> I left an IRC client logged into freenode overnight when they turned
> on their "intelligent" firewall.  Apparently ANY IRC traffic is
> considered "botnet activity" by some security software.

Which is totally reasonable for the average user population.  The
network I admin blocks IRC as 'evil' traffic.  Many IM (XMPP) servers,
such as OpenFire, provide IM gateways to IRC, ICQ, etc.... which
provides a safer way to provide users audited/logged/authenticated
access to legacy IM services.

> XMPP/Jabber can be used just like IRC, when chatrooms are set up.  At
> a past job, I set up an XMPP server for coworkers in different rooms
> to be able to chat, and automatic notifications to be announced.  You
> can use it in almost the same way as IRC for private use.

Agree,  XMPP is great.


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