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

Thu Jun 27 03:42:50 UTC 2002

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 11:33:55PM +0100, DaveHowe at gmx.co.uk said:
> Doug Barton wrote:
> > Would a secure (probably via SSL) chat client be considered a valuable
> > item in this sphere? (Note, blatant self interest involved in this
> > question, feel free to respond off list.)
> Jabber can do SSL for IM, and there is an irc-like encrypted chat called
> silc.

You may also want to examine one of the several IRC hacks that incorporate
SSL. The one I occasionally visit is suidnet <http://www.suidnet.org>.
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