Re: AIM/ICQ??

[Roger Dingledine <arma@mit.edu>]

> >I just had a thought (thoes happen every once in a while).  Should we do an
> >AIM or ICQ thing so that we can instantly get in contact with people if they
> >are online?  Especially if we are working on a rather critical area, it would
> >cut down on the time it takes to send an e-mail and wait for someone to read
> >it.  I know AIM (AOL Instant Messanger) has clients for Windows
> >(http://www.aol.com/aim) and Linux (http://www.aim.aol.com/tik build using
> >TCL/TK).  I'm not sure if ICQ has a Linux version.  Any ideas?
> 
>    What, are we too slow for you?  :-)  The problem is, many of us don't
> want to run YATC <Yet Another Talk Client> on our desktop.  My e-mail
> pops up, so it would be no quicker anyway.  It is much less intrusive.
> An IRC channel might be a good plan, however.  Consensus?
> 
> 			Lee
 
I had originally interpreted this as a suggestion for putting aim/icq on the
distribution.

In any case, cvs.seul.org port 7776 is running an irc server. channel #seul
usually has me and sometimes a couple other people in it, mostly when the
linuxkb or freecase people schedule a meeting. It's very well-connected and
never loaded. People are welcome to drop by anytime.

I'm generally working on enough other things that actually sitting down and
hammering out answers to an issue isn't something I can handle doing. Most of
these issues seem pretty fuzzy anyway, so far. (I think what I mean by that
is that most people discussing them aren't going to be the ones implementing
them, so discussion past a certain limited extent isn't very useful.)

And now that I've offended everybody, I'm going to go back to my mostly-dead
sleep-deprived state and continue working.

--Roger