Peter Rundle wrote:
Sluggers,
I find myself working with a couple of people who are in love with MSN
messaging and use it to collaborate. I've never used any sort of instant
messaging and know nothing about it. Of course all the links that I get
sent are to Microsoft only, "just download and install and it will
create a hotmail account" etc, I.E as a Linux user, completely useless.
I have some chat client software on my machine gaim I think, but am
totally clueless as to how to "create an account" get connected etc.
Google gives me lots of info about how to install WLM on windows but
nothing about how to go about it on Linux and the Linux sites give lots
of info on how to download their messaging client which supports MSN is
more brilliant than the next and just set it up like Windows (Note to
Linux developers, I don't use windows have hardly ever used windows and
telling me to do it like I used to in Windows tells me nothing and also
I don't have a windows box to download, install configure setup or
create a messaging account on ).
Ive been in the situation, more than once, where I needed to
'succumb' to using the above.
Pidgin is great!
The problem you have is when you need to refer to the act of
sending messages, everywhere referred to as 'msn' as in "I'll msn
you <cringe>". It requires a bit of reeducation of your
co-workers to get them using 'im' or 'message' as the verb )-:
Also, sending files via im is highly annoyingly slow. I often ask
people to email me that file.
Another concern is the audit trail. My boss or others will ask me
to do stuff and theyll 'im' me the details...
Good luck.
Post if you have probs.
Kr.
Luke.
So is there any slugger out there that will take pity and guide me
through how to get "on-line" with messaging in as painless a way as
possible. Links to howtos much appreciated, and a link to a real how it
works would be super. The babble on google talks as if it's peer to peer
but that's obviously not true, I guess there is a central server
somewhere that handles the traffic (in the hands of some Microsoft
wennie who no doubt reads all the post and creates profiles of the users
to bombard them with spam, I'm not paranoid honest ;-) )
Many TIA's
P.
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