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There's a little wager gonig on where I work, who can find the most web-based IM'ing services which don't get blocked by the company filter.
Anyone know some hard to find ones? I've already found a bunch with the google search "online instant messenger -aol -msn -yahoo", now I need some less obvious ones :)
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uh... what have you got already?
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Kopete's the one that came with mandrake linux, and I'd never heard of it before...
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don't forget msn webmessenger
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www.miranda-im.org

supports damn near IM service out there.
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Vertigo1 wrote:www.miranda-im.org

supports damn near IM service out there.
He's talking about online clients, like AIM express.
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Ace Pace wrote:
Vertigo1 wrote:www.miranda-im.org

supports damn near IM service out there.
He's talking about online clients, like AIM express.
That is the cheif concern -
Funniest IM service: http://praize.com/IM/
Just waiting to run into a service that lets you IM jesus, lol
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previous suggestions were blocked btw, com'on gimmie good ones :P
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InnocentBystander wrote:previous suggestions were blocked btw, com'on gimmie good ones :P
Thats bullshit, if you have port 80 open(Http://) then e-messenger works.
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Not if the website itself blocked :P
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InnocentBystander wrote:Not if the website itself blocked :P
Well thats not my problem.:P
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InnocentBystander wrote:Not if the website itself blocked :P
Use another proxy ;)
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That's not a concern, trust me. Let's just say that the majority of the people who work here most likely don't know how to do tunneling, and those that do are too smart to put their careers in jeopardy like that.
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Whoa... who mentioned tunneling? There's nothing wrong with using another web proxy if the network admin allows it. I used to do it all the time at college to get to my yahoo mail account.
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