I set up a temporary conference on the Jabber IM network as an experiment and held it open for about 2 weeks, but there was very little activity.
Everyone seemed to feel that IRC was sufficient and adding an IM option was undesirable, so I ended the experiment.
If you do prefer IM, the Jabber servers are open (
www.jabber.org), and so is the software used to run the services.
The Psi client is available via apt-get or RPM and is an excellent tool. GAIM also supports Jabber, although not as well as Psi.
You can set up a MUC (MultiUserConference) in Jabber pretty easily on many of the open servers by just opening a conference window specifying the conference name.
==Joseph++
P.S. The original thread to set up the MUC conference starts at (
http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/lurker/message/20050127.203605.b2553e1c.en.html).
The instructions for connecting to Jabber are at (
http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/lurker/message/20050128.203706.5c26e7c7.en.html)
George wrote:
> I seem to remember that someone had put up an instant messaging server (I
> think that might be what you call it) a while back and offered it up for
> PLUGers to use.
>
> Does anybody remember the URL/IP???
>
> Is it still available???
>
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