[JDEV] Jabber Advocacy and looking for M$ Windows client

[Nathan J. Mehl]

In the immortal words of dman (dman at dman.ddts.net):
> 
> I do have trouble starting the daemon on my system.  First, it doesn't
> fork like daemons ought to.  As a result, the init script must put it
> in the backgrounds.  Due to that, the init script has no way of
> knowing if the daemon started successfully or not and reporting
> failures.

	http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

jabberd's non-forking nature is actually a blessing in disguise, since
it means that it integrates beautifully into daemontools with almost
no effort.  "Try it, you'll like it!"  

(My daemontools run scripts for jabberd and transports are available on
request.)

> She isn't a computer geek in the least.  It would be best for her to
> _start_ on the right foot, rather than begin with AIM and later try
> to convince her to change.  I've heard WinJab mentioned a lot.  I
> briefly saw it once.  Personally I don't like the way the GUI is
> organized.  I like the tradional style of having a tall, narrow,
> window with just the contact list and then having a separate window
> for chats.  What windows client(s) do people recommend?

There are a billion or so windows jabber clients.  The jabber.com
"Jabber Instant Messenger" (JIM) client is by far the most "polished",
and is probably the only one I'd recommend to naive users without
hesitation.  

-n

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