Re: GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.3.0: "Mighty Atom"

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 23:34, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:

> > 
> > IRC is an instant messenging protocol.  :)
> XChat works fine for this.  As a joke I tried out Gaim's IRC plugin and I had to ask myself
> why it was ever implemented.  IRC and IM are two totaly different beasts
> that need different interfaces.

Up to a point, but Trillian on Windoze for example does a pretty
acceptable job of integrating an IRC client into what is otherwise a
multi-protocol IM client just like Gaim.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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