[KLUG Members] In out board

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Is anyone using a project for the purpose of an in out board.

Jabber, more or less.  One can add an entity (a user or anything else
hooked to jabber) to one's roster and know the entities availability
assuming said entity bothers to set their mode: available, away,
do-not-disturb, unavailable, etc...

> We are
> currently using inexpensive windows software that runs utilizes an
> access database.  It uses a portion of our bandwidth because it polls
> the access data file instead of using an sql request to a real database
> server.

Ick.  And even a real database would be a polling request unless you
implemented a back-channel method (not to hard, you can make SOAP calls,
etc... via stored procedures in PostgreSQL, DB2, Informix and possibly
others).  Jabber however is just naturally live.

> If anyone is using this capability from some other package, I would be
> interested in hearing about it.  I seem to remember hearing that Adam
> was using Jabber and instant messaging clients for this??

Yes.  
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