I'm not sure that this is the correct forum for this, but it was suggested by a contact involved with one of the clients out there!
I understand that many jabber clients will also function with other IM services. What I haven't seen is whether any of the clients allow interaction with winpopup. We have two offices connected by a VPN with samba boxes doing browse syncing etc. Browsing with windows boxes works across the WAN. Winpopup does as well. However, it apparently only sends to an individual or a work group. Because of how the browsing works across the WAN, I can't have more than one workgroup on either end (unless I add additional samba boxes). So IM using winpopup can go to only one recipient or a whole workgroup. Clearly this is clumsy, but we live with it. I recently added a Linux workstation to the mix. No winpopup, although I understand there is a linpopup out there somewhere. However, this is the time to look for a better solution. Jabber seems an obvious choice as it allows me to run my own server. This is useful for both security and bandwidth reasons. So features I'd be interested in seeing (or suggestions of a client that allows any of these ideas) are: 1- the ability to interact with winpopup 2- the ability to configure groups (pseudo-workgroups) and point and click a message to the members in one go. 3- the ability to select graphically all desired recipients of a single message. I think two and three are included in ICQ, but I don't want to blast inter-office stuff all over the internet if I can help it! I haven't found a jabber client that will do this, but I haven't installed them all... However the documentation I've scanned doesn't seem to mention these abilities. Any comments this might evoke would be appreciated. Please CC me as I'm not yet on the list... R Brock Nanson, P.Eng. [EMAIL PROTECTED] TRUE Consulting Group 201 - 2079 Falcon Road Kamloops BC V2C4J2 www.true.bc.ca (250) 828-0881 fax: (250) 828-0717 _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
