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On 31-Jul-97 Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: >On 30 Jul 1997, Stephen Witt wrote: >[cut] >> So, I would hate to see the continuation of a proprietary solution to >> a particular problem by the free software development population of >> the general public. It goes against nearly every basic part of the >> Linux/Unix/IP philosopy and in the end denies us functionality and >> choice. > >I pretty much agree with you. However I also think that something like >ICQ might be neat. I'm thinking of an app with a nice little interface >like ICQ's, but uses already well established IP tools. > >I, like many others, find it very difficult to tell when my friends are on >line. The University of Delaware has some X.500 thing installed, so noone >can finger into the university and find out if you're logged in. And even >if they could, they might have to guess which computer you're >on...although there are ways to make a finger daemon search multiple >computers, I know, but more often than not people don't. (Too much work >on top of what they already have to do I suppose) > >I'd like an app that will announce to a central server that I'm online (or >maybe distributed servers that communicate with each other for better >stability), and that my client can check to see if my friends are logged >in, where they're logged in, etc. > >Then it could fire up a talk client for you easily. Personally, I think >that ytalk is all I need. Its excellent. Might need to implement some >kind of ability to accept talk requests built in to the client on MS and >Macs and such...I don't know, I haven't thought this out too much yet. > >In any event, there should be an RFC, and the source should be free. And >if it isn't written soon ICQ will take over the world. :) > > This is also exactly what I would like. Just a way to find out when and where my freinds are logged in so I can send them a message they will see imediatly, and the ability to chat and possibly send files to them. This would also have to be a multiplatform system. I would love to have this as in a free and open form but now the only option I can see is ICQ or AOL's AIM and right now AIM is the only one working for more than Windows. If I were a programer (which I am trying to learn, but not even close yet) I would try to get something like this started. But alas I do not yet poses the technical skills necessary. Possibly there is someone who does and is interested. I really think something like this would happen and I have a lot of ideas about it. Please let me know if you wan't to talk more. - ------------------------- E-Mail: Travis Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.methow.com/~tcole -- Get my Public Key here Date: 30-Jul-97 Time: 21:36:30 640Kb should be enough for anybody Bill Gates - ------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM+AXk2gYC2+RaorhAQGFrQP6A8VgpR0kRn5fJZ2lSyOjEbToD33Z4v1b pfXKJyIK+chAJhVxATiRccuszisEfcNc0Jb7E+tj/3sr0B8zq9TyligXWk8MgS4k h5dwj6wyi0h1NTXz3Q5SkAw+LMnfYTR8waGVY9uoQY+0TzM20B+zbBaMd08XJVVu zLfZs1/shDA= =MrHw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
