gizmo project

[Charles Yao]

On 12/1/05, James Gray <james at grayonline.id.au> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 01 December 2005 02:05, David Hart wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 05:54 -0500, Chris Woods wrote:
> > > Take a look at Jabber (http://jabber.org). If you're just looking for
> > > internal IM and don't need collaboration with people on other IM
> > > networks, Jabber might fit the bill, as you can run a Jabber server
> > > internally.
> >
> > Jabber _does_ interoperate with other IM networks (AIM, MSN, Yahoo ...)
> > if you install and configure the appropriate transports.
>
> Plus, once the transports are configured, you can set permissions on who
> has
> access to external IM networks, or whether file transfers are allowed,
> etc.
>
> As a corporate IM gateway, Jabber is fantastic!  I installed it at work
> and
> set all the Windows users up with Psi (Jabber client) and it's been
> fantastic.  Most of our IM traffic is internal anyway, so Jabber slotted
> into
> our environment perfectly.  We have transports for all the major IM
> networks
> (ICQ/YIM/MSN) but only text-chat is allowed - not file transfers.  All the
> ports for these external IM networks are blocked unless it comes from the
> Jabber server - so there's no way around[1].
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
> [1] - But "MSN can connect on port 80" you say?  Yeh, but our web proxies
> deny
> "connect" methods.  GET/POST/HEAD etc are ok though.  Some of the more
> clueful IT Operations staff and developers have done ssh port forwarding
> to
> bypass the Jabber server, but they (devs & itops) are the only ones able
> to
> use port 22 as it is, so it's not a big deal.
> --
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> the reader.
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Thats sounds great, thanks guys ill look into it.

Charles
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