How important is IM? was RE: How important is the PSTN

Tue Jun 25 19:34:59 UTC 2002

PGP Corporate Desktop can help with ICQ if you are a Windows user.
-ren, who prefers IRC

At 12:24 PM 6/25/2002 -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:

>On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:
> > So my question for the group is, do chat programs (IM, IRC, yahoo) serve a
> > substantial network support purpose or are they more of a distraction,
> > allowing staff to communicate with friends, relatives, drifters, 
> interlopers
> > on company time?
>
>We find IRC and IM invaluable. Set up a private irc server behind the
>firewall, and use crypto-hard ICQ like licq. (if you use windoze you are
>probably out of luck though)
>
>-Dan
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