[TriLUG] online web chat server recommendations?

[Ryan Wheaton]

I've thought about using Jabber for inter-office communications, but 
what I'm looking for is a chat room where customers can log in and join 
in on a moderated chat.  I'm not sure that Jabber can be easily adapted 
for this purpose.

-r
On Thursday, Feb 5, 2004, at 10:24 America/Denver, Dave Sorenson wrote:

> Have you considered Jabber? http://www.jabber.org/ It's not web based, 
> but
>  it and the clients are open source. We are testing it @work and are
> finding it to be pretty well put together.
>
> Dave S.
>
>
>> Hey Everybody,
>>
>> I've been trying to find a good open source web chat program to run on
>> one of our servers.  I can't seem to find one that is really good.  I
>> checked sourceforge and googled around some, but all the ones that I
>> found were incomplete, or didn't have a lot of the features that I'm
>> looking for.  I tried webchat, phpMyChat, and phpOpenChat.  The basic
>> functionality that I'm looking for is to require a login to enter a
>> chat, and being able to moderate a chat thereafter.  So, basically, 
>> I'd
>> invite certain people to a chat, they'd log in, and then I'd have a
>> special guest (or something like that) there for them to chat with 
>> (but
>> being able to control what questions make it to the special guest).
>>
>> Anyone know of a good program?  I guess it doesn't necessarily have to
>> be open source, but would like to keep it to be rather inexpensive (<
>> $300).
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> -rtw
>>
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