From: R. Coyote (coyyote@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 11:57:15 MST
Michael where do you hang out on efnet?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael M. Butler" <mmb@spies.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: Aim or ICQ, other messengers?
>
> > AIM, Yahoo, and ICQ are very popular but don't inter-operate with each
> > other. There's also Jabber which is trying to promote its own open
> > standard, and there are others, such as Trillian, that attempt to
provide a
> > common front end to access more than one service. A newcomer that I'm
> > watching is VeriChat, that attempts to provide full-time presence on
> > multiple IM services with client being on your mobile phone or wireless
PDA.
> >
> > - Jef
>
> I've tried myJabber, which claims to provide gateway service to
dogs-in-the-manger
> like AIM and MSN Messenger and ICQ. I didn't have great success with it.
>
> I've been using EFnet IRC for about 10 years. I don't expect it to catch
on,
> but that's a feature as far as I am concerned...
>
> MMB
>
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