primus, this reply is for you, and for all the monks who will read this thread in the future. I write this to document some of the "common knowledge" which will/might fade from the Monastary in time.

I suggest that you listen very carefully to theorbtwo when he talks about IM. He wrote the AIM to CB gateway. He spends much time online IMing. He found a girlfriend online, via IM. (On a different continent, 6 hours away.) His homenode currently lists 4 IM protocols by which he can be reached (not including Chat :).

There may be Monks who have more IM-fu than theorbtwo, but I don't know of them or their *-fu.

And regarding Instant Messaging, you might want to check out the various CB clients available here. Lots of cool ways to chat.

Perl programming and scheduling in the corporate world, as explained by dragonchild:
"Uhh ... that'll take me three weeks, broken down as follows: 1 day for coding, the rest for meetings to explain why I only need 1 day for coding."

In reply to Re: Re: ~ Instant Messaging Clients ~ by Louis_Wu
in thread ~ Instant Messaging Clients ~ by primus

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