Cross-platform, Easy-to-Use Local LAN Chat?

Posted by Cliff on Monday March 29, 2004 @01:11PM from the simple-communication dept.

Ars-Gonzo asks: "I was at a conference last week, and had a surprising number of people connected to a peer-to-peer wireless LAN during the lectures. I saw several Mac users typing away during the lectures, and I found out later that they were using iChat's Rendezvous-based local chat to talk to each other. iChat's local subnet chatting functionality is supposedly based on Jabber, but I can't get a Jabber client (on Windows or Linux) to connect to iChat, locally. Has anyone seen any iChat compatible LAN-chat apps for a platform other than Mac?"

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IRC? by Vaevictis666 · 2004-03-29 13:16 · Score: 2, Redundant

Provided you all agree on an IP to host the server at any rate :P
Either that, or depending on how many people are involved, you could always use MSN or Yahoo IM and invite people into one big happy conversation.
old school by buttahead · 2004-03-29 14:16 · Score: 0, Redundant

phone over rj11, said like "forge-eleven"