[KLUG Members] talk replacement

[Miles Pschigoda]

Back when I had a public IP and ran a server, I enjoyed talking to my
users using the "talk" and the multi user "ytalk" programs.  Now we've
all gone our seperate ways and still keep in touch with AIM and IRC.  We
liked the imedacy of talk, however, the "once you've said it, you've
said it" aspect. 

For the KLUG members who are not familure with "talk," the letters you
type are sent as you type them, as opposed to AIM and IRC where you
write a whole lines and then hit "send" and email where you write whole
passages and send them.  It's really a lot like talking to somone in
person. 

My question is, though, does anyone know of a IM protocol or program
that doesn't require remote-login (via ssh or telnet) that is real-time,
and perferably cross-platform (namely Linux, Mac OSx, Windows, in that
order)?

--MP