Instant Messenging Woes

[daniel]

On August 9, 2004 10:49 am, Wil McGilvery wrote:
> Hello Everyone.
>
> I am now in the position of having to regulate Instant Message clients in
> our Network. Does anyone have experience with this?
>
> I would like to:
>
> Use an internal IM system for staff to use.
> Allow certain employees to connect to the outside world.
> Keep track of who they connect to.
>
> We use IM for communication between remote offices and Technical Support
> etc, but some people have started to chat with their buddies instead of
> working.
>
> I don't want to shutdown the Instant Message clients completely. Currently
> the client of choice is MSN.

just a thought, but what's to keep people from ssh'ing into their box @home 
and running a messenger client tunneled over ssh?

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