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On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Adrian Midgley wrote:
On Sunday 20 October 2002 10:26, you wrote:IRC is easier imo. apt-get install irssi
IRC is a very solid recommendation. ircd is trivial to install and run as a single-server system, and there is a wide choice of IRC client (I use xchat these days). I've also found Jabber to work reasonably well, though I've never adminned a server and I've only jabbered in a small-team context: I shouldn't be at all surprised if it falls flat when you try to scale it up.
What is the difference between IM and IRC?
Not quite sure - I never got IM to do anything useful. But then I never had a reason to: I wouldn't know where to look for an interesting discussion with it. IRC is where serious conferencing happens - eg irc.openprojects.net is a "virtual coffee bar" for a huge number of opensource projects and interest groups, and irc.w3.org is where a lot of W3C discussion, including official meetings, takes place.
I know IRC has been around for ages, is it mainly teh additional server-based services such as when people are on line and so on that distinguish IRC, or are there more improtant differneces.
Pass. Don't know enough about IM to say.
And where is the unreliability of Jabber derived from - is this becuase the protocols are flawed or becuae a gratuit server is unlikely to give reliable service when busy?
I'm surprised at you! You should know that all reliable implementations of the 'net's core services are free, or very closely derived from free s/w. But certainly when I used Jabber, the Client software available for *X gave the impression of being less than mature. OTOH, that's going back a while. -- Nick Kew -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.