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Date:      Fri, 12 May 2000 16:25:09 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Matt Rohrer <rohrer@hawaii.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Java chat (fwd)
Message-ID:  <20000512162509.H10128@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0005101116210.8001-100000@uhunix2>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0005101116210.8001-100000@uhunix2>

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Matt Rohrer wrote:

> I'm looking for a chat server to install on our machine to provide a
> forum for students to meet with each other and their instructors. I
> was thinking of a java based ap. that users could access through their
> browser rather than just setting up an IRC server and having them
> learn another program. I'm not stuck on java, though, if anyone has
> other ideas. Just wondering if anyone else has set up something
> similar, and if so, what it was. Thanks again.

There is a Java based IRC client somewhere, so it does actually use an
IRC server behind the scenes, but the users needn't know that, they can
just use it from their web browser.  This has the bonus that people who
do know how to use a more featureful IRC client can use that to take
part.  See <http://www.jpilot.com/>, apparently it costs $40 (US) which
isn't that much.

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Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D


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