Linux, online confrences, and IRC portals?

[Karen Lewellen]

Charles,
I am trying to follow this in the context of my question.
Are you suggesting that one of these avenues, one of the networks you 
referenced, may have a portal structure in place that might let me visit.

interact.airmedia.org

and access their chat/conference client there, which is proprietory  java 
based, and not a messing service?
I realize you have said you do not know much, but is this in part what 
you are suggesting
I need no irc client there is a fine one here at shellworld.  However at 
the moment there is no irc portal that connects to this site, and i am not 
sure if one can be created.
That falls under the reeventing the wheel category perhaps.
thanks,
Karen

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Karen, Anne, and all,
>
> Others have had more experience with text mode conferencing in Linux
> than I, but for what it's worth, here is my experience:
>
> There are numerous IRC clients that work well enough in Linux. I have
> used BitchX to participate in text mode conferences with little or not
> difficulty, after tweaking the default configuration a bit. I have been
> told that there are better clients than BitchX for the purpose, but
> never moved on up to another.
>
> Currently I am using jabber very successfully for instant messaging,
> relying on the client called "imcom" for the purpose. There are
> conferences available on the jabber network, and I have also
> successfully participated in one of them using imcom.
>
> In addition to providing instant messaging and conferencing, jabber
> supports gateways to the major proprietary conferencing and messaging
> services such as ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, and the
> rest, but I have not attempted to use those gateways (or transports in
> jabberese). I know of at least one serious speakup user who uses them
> happily, and at least one other who has had enormous difficulty doing
> so. I also understand that the new Google Talk service relies on the
> jabber protocol, or a jabber-like protocol, but again I have not
> attempted to interact with it, and do not know if they do conferences
> anyway. Jabber uses the terms "MUC" (multi user chat) and "conference"
> interchangeably.
>
> The various IRC services and the jabber network are all GPL, and there
> are client programs to access them for all the major platforms, Windows,
> Mac, and Linux.
>
> While it is possible to do text mode conferencing in Linux, my
> experience has been that it is usually a very rapid fire experience that
> challenges my reaction time to participate effectively. In short, it is
> no fun! But it is do-able.
>
> That's it, you have just picked my brain clear to the bone.
>
> Chuck
>
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