Other console IM options: BitchX IRC client (available in many distro's repositories), pork aol / aim client, you may have to build from source, but it's usually a pretty easy build:<br><br><a href="http://ojnk.sourceforge.net/">http://ojnk.sourceforge.net/</a><br>
<br>-dc<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Jerry Heiselman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jerry@heiselman.com">jerry@heiselman.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Pidgin also has zeroconf. So, if all the users are on the same multicast network, you can do it all without the need for setting up a server.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Jeff Chapin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chapinjeff@gmail.com" target="_blank">chapinjeff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Pidgin is by far my favorite client for all protocols, and it has the<br>
benefit of having a CLI version. <br>
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Jeff</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><font color="#888888">Jerry<br>
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