Re: Re: Experiences with IM support?

To all who noted that Jabber may be the way to go: wouldn't this require that the end-users have a Jabber account? In our environment, most have ICQ, but some don't; some have AOL, but not all; and so on.

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Re: Re: Re: Experiences with IM support? by lachoy (Parson) on Apr 17, 2002 at 18:06 UTC
I think that's what you can use the gateway plugins for -- you should be able to send a message to a jabber server to tell it to forward the message to a user on another IM system. But I haven't tried this yet, so I'm not sure. Another thing working against you is that other IM systems aren't fond of making their protocols public, making it difficult to use them in any way other than they intended. Chris M-x auto-bs-mode	[reply]

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Re: Re: Re: Experiences with IM support?
by lachoy (Parson) on Apr 17, 2002 at 18:06 UTC

I think that's what you can use the gateway plugins for -- you should be able to send a message to a jabber server to tell it to forward the message to a user on another IM system. But I haven't tried this yet, so I'm not sure. Another thing working against you is that other IM systems aren't fond of making their protocols public, making it difficult to use them in any way other than they intended.

Chris
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