[Wocky] Invitation to participate in the Jabber messaging pilot

[Joanne M. Hallisey]

Hello,

IS&T invites you to participate in a pilot of a Jabber Instant 
Messaging service.   Jabber is an instant messaging system that 
allows MIT users to communicate with one another and Jabber users 
elsewhere on the Internet. Jabber also supports creation and joining 
of chat rooms for group communication. Additionally, many Jabber 
clients also offer support for other instant messaging systems such 
as AIM (AOL) and YIM (Yahoo).

The intention of the pilot is to learn more about requirements for 
providing this as an enterprise messaging service and understand some 
of the support and service issues.  The pilot will focus on setting 
up the server environment and delivering installers for GAIM and 
AdiumX (software clients for Linux, Macintosh and Windows).

The Jabber pilot team will provide limited best effort support, and 
pilot participants are strongly encouraged to give feedback. As the 
pilot progresses, the team will send updates and post them to the web 
pages listed below. The pilot will run through December 2005.  IS&T 
will start a more formal release effort if the pilot is successful.

The following draft web pages provide download information, 
configuration instructions and information about known issues.

Jabber Service Page
<http://web.mit.edu/ist/services/messaging/jabber.html>

Jabber Stock Answer Branch
<http://itinfo.mit.edu/answer.php?id=7916>

Please note:
As always, protect your password.  Do not allow the client program to 
store your password.

For questions or more information please contact the team via the 
Wocky mailing list:
Wocky at mit.edu
<http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/wocky>

Thank you.
For the Jabber Team,
--
Joanne Hallisey
_______________________________________________
Reminders:
- Make off-campus connections through the Virtual Private Network.
For information on the VPN see 
<http://web.mit.edu/ist/services/network/vpn.html>

- Take advantage of the MIT Windows Automatic Update Service.  For 
information on WAUS see 
<http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/windows/updates/>

- Take advantage of a recent enhancement to MIT's Spam Screening 
service which allows for personally setting the number of days "spam" 
is aged prior to auto deletion.  For more complete information and to 
set your personal options see 
<http://web.mit.edu/ist/services/email/nospam/>

-- 
Joanne Hallisey
Sr. Project Manager
MIT - Information Services and Technology
617-253-1894