[TriLUG] Local instant messenger app

[James Brigman]

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 21:20 -0500, Steve Kuekes wrote:
> I'm looking for a local instant messenger app that I can run entirely 
> within my corporate network.  I've to ~20 internal users all running 
> Windoze that want to be able to IM each other.  It needs to have some 
> kind of easy buddy list type interface.

Jabber's a good server app, and "GAIM" is an awesome client app.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/. Win and Linux versions are available, and
it'll address users of about 10 different protocols. It allows buddy
lists (EASY to configure and use), quick file transfer along open IM
sessions, avatars (small jpg's) and "new mail" notification for logged-
in users. It comes "stock" in RHEL 4 and, I think, FC3.

JKB