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Randy Bush
randy at psg.com
Sat Aug 11 21:43:47 CEST 2007
> 1. A lot of people have written English much better than spoken. > 2. International (and somewhere even intercity) calls are expensive. > 3. You always have history. You can show it or see again after a while. > You can copy-paste something. > 4. It is convenient. It is much more interactive e-mail, but less > interactive than phone call. You can do something else when talking via > IM to somebody. some jabber software supports reasonable security. i.e. well-written clients properly check the server's cert and to c2s encryption to the server. a few really good clients will do e2e crypto using gpg keys or whatever. the gang of us who maintain our racks in westin and ashburn use jabber. i think of it as just another path. when things go badly, which paths will work and which not is often different than one expects. randy
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