[JDEV] AOL+, ISP usage, etc..

["Thomas D. Charron" <tcharron@my-deja.com>]

  I am going to tryt to find out what the insider scoop is..  I have someone that works there that may be able to fill me in a bit..

  (It helps that I work for the company that takes care of AOL's electronic billing transactions.. ;-P)

  On side note, I have some interesting news..  I friend of mine was talking to me last night, and asked if I'd ever heard of this 'Jabber' program that is under development...  I started to laugh histerically, and asked him where he'd seen it.  He happened accross it on a web search the other day.  Anyway, he is REALLY looking forward to looking at it, and here's the best part..  He wants to roll it out for usage by the ISP he works for, PSINet, once everything is up to snuff for a 1.0 release..  He's most likely going to join the list eventually, as he's really exited about the whole idea..

  Oh, and IRC via Jabber is just to friggen cool..  Jer, do I have proper CVS permisions to checkin a new subdir anyplace?
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Thomas Charron

On Fri, 9 Jul 1999 19:09:38    Patrick McCuller wrote:
>
>	The scoop is, AIM is replacing ICQ, not the other way around. They'll be
>nice enough about it, starting out by bridging the two systems and then just
>distributing the AIM installer, not the ICQ installer. Mind you, this is
>hearsay, I don't work for AOL. But one way or another, none of the currently
>available instant messaging clients is really good, and not the great goal,
>interoperable.
>
>	A year ago, I counted seven distinct instant messaging networks. How many
>are there today?
>
>
>Patrick
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-jdev@jabber.org [mailto:owner-jdev@jabber.org]On Behalf Of
>> Donovan Schulteis
>> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 10:31 PM
>> To: jdev@jabber.org
>> Subject: Re: [JDEV] weird new authentication/roster idea
>>
>>
>> Being AOL bought ICQ (well, its company - can't remember the
>> name), I guess
>> we can expect AIM to integrate all of ICQ into it (or visa-versa).
>>
>> > What does AIM++ have to offer so to speak that ICQ doesn't have?
>>
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