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On a partially related topic, I've recently run across a service that tries to put all the instant messenging services together in one package. Check out Jabber.com; it's still under development, but it seems like it may be a good idea in the making. Redundancy in messengers may be useful, but the program's still a teeny bit buggy. On 5/8/2001 at 11:35:27 -0700, Sean Donelan wroteified: > > A question (and a test to see if I'm still subscribed) > > The various instant messenging services, such as AIM, ICQ, Microsoft, > Yahoo, other Messenger uses a central server to manage "presence". > > No central server appears to mean no instant messages, am I correct? > > What does this have to do with NANOG, apparently it is becoming more > common for backbone NOC folks to communicate with their friends in > other NOCs via one of these instant chat programs. I didn't realize > how common it was until I was informed about it last month when AOL/AIM > had difficulties. This month Yahoo Messenger had power difficulties, > which disrupted their central servers. > > If folks are using this these services for real-time communications, > should we be trying to improve their reliability? Or is this just a > "feature" of how presence services work. > > -- Dave Israel Senior Manager, IP Backbone Intermedia Business Internet
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