Jabber help

Fri May 12 12:00:43 PDT 2006

There are some decent appliances out there that can enforce your AUP.

http://www.bluecoat.com/solutions/security/im.html

It's a little too "big brother" for me though ... internally, I prefer to
use an IRC server.

Russ

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-baylisa at baylisa.org [mailto:owner-baylisa at baylisa.org] On Behalf
Of Jim Hickstein
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 10:31 AM
To: Guy B. Purcell
Cc: baylisa
Subject: Re: Jabber help

> Thanks for the suggestions, Scott.  Anyone else have thoughts?  I can't 
> believe y'all don't have an opinion ;^)

My last outfit ran (and runs) a jabber server from jabber.org, a rather 
old one.  But it's impossible to enforce its use, so people still send 
plenty of company-confidential information to each other, and to 
customers, via "public" IM services.

All you can do is make a place for the proper behavior, set a policy, 
and then rely on non-technical means to enforce it (i.e. management).

For myself, I don't even tell Yahoo, MSN, AOL, etc., about my very 
existence, if I can possibly help it.  Have you seen the news lately?