I have chat archiving enabled by default. I realize that users can go 'off record' whenever they want, but they can also delete emails whenever they want. What I have not tested out (but plan to do soon now) is check to see if the transcript of the chat that shows up in their inboxs is getting archived...
--Michael T. Bendorf-- Technology Administrator A-C Central C.U.S.D. #262 217.476.3312 ext. 2019 Cellular: 217.306.6824 "I'm trying to teach myself to ask the same questions that you do during your lectures so that I do not need you any more." A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. "The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas." - Alan Kay On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Heath Henderson <hmh1...@gmail.com> wrote: > How does everyone handle the possibility or needing to archive chats as > well as emails? While I don't think it is required directly, considering > you can do many similar communications between email and chat (file > transfer, messaging etc) it is probably a matter of time before it is > required or requested by a court due to legal request. > > We removed chat here because of the murky area it presented and didn't want > to deal with. > > -Heath Henderson > > On Aug 12, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Mike Oliveri <mike.oliv...@student.rb60.com> > wrote: > > I've switched to using the GA4E servers for our chat server because we've > decided it's more convenient to have the anytime/anywhere access than it is > features like screen sharing (which we could have done through iChat > server). > > We have found the iChat client can't exchange video with someone through > the web-based Google Talk chat interface. If someone wants to do a video > chat, they either both need to be on their Gmail website (with the vidchat > software installed) or they both need to be on a third-party client. > > Mike > > > On Aug 12, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Michael Bendorf wrote: > > hmmm, I have just been using the chat built into the web inbox... > I got us off of openfire/spark in favor of the web chat. > > --Michael T. Bendorf-- > Technology Administrator > A-C Central C.U.S.D. #262 > 217.476.3312 ext. 2019 > Cellular: 217.306.6824 > > "I'm trying to teach myself to ask the same questions that you do during > your lectures so that I do not need you any more." > > A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for > others. > > "The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the > enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers > using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas." > > - Alan Kay > > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Chris Franzen > <<chrisfran...@nokomis.k12.il.us> > chrisfran...@nokomis.k12.il.us> wrote: > >> hmm, havent tried using pidgin 4 our GA4E, but I'll give this new version >> a try and then maybe I can dump the old wildfire server. >> >> Chris Franzen >> Technology Coordinator >> Nokomis School District >> 511 Oberle St. >> Nokomis, IL 62075 >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Mike Oliveri >> <<mike.oliv...@student.rb60.com> >> mike.oliv...@student.rb60.com> wrote: >> >>> Seconded for Pidgin. Working well here. >>> >>> Mike >>> >>> On Aug 11, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Ben Story wrote: >>> >>> > <Http://www.pidgin.im/>Http://www.pidgin.im >>> > >>> > Ben Story, CCSP, CCDA >>> > Sent from my iPhone >>> > >>> > On Aug 11, 2010, at 19:47, K Lesko < <kle...@gmail.com> >>> kle...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> >> Does anyone have a suggestion for a lightweight Chat App for GA4E ? I >>> haven't tried GoogleTalk yet. We have some old 1ghz/256mb (Win2k and XP) >>> machines that I need to use for the teachers. I see that Google desktop is >>> basically a stripped down version of Chromium, but it seems that it might be >>> a little resource intensive on older machines. >>> >> >>> >> Any suggestions? >>> >> | Subscription info at <http://www.tech-geeks.org/> >>> http://www.tech-geeks.org | >>> > | Subscription info at <http://www.tech-geeks.org/> >>> http://www.tech-geeks.org | >>> >>> | Subscription info at <http://www.tech-geeks.org/> >>> http://www.tech-geeks.org | >>> >> >> >> | Subscription info at <http://www.tech-geeks.org/> >> http://www.tech-geeks.org | >> > > | Subscription info at <http://www.tech-geeks.org> > http://www.tech-geeks.org | > > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >
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