SOLVED Looking for chat software

[Cheekiweeki]

I am looking for a program similar to one that Skype had a year or so back - or was it 5 or more back??? It is for live chatting with a group. There is a moderator who calls the group together at a certain time and who controls the 'chat' info as it is entered by the people in the group. It would be nice if this program is FREE! I think Skype used to have 'discussion groups' and 'Marketing Groups' or for 'Instruction or Tutorials' whereby one could pass info around in live time with 10 + others in the 'room'. Anyone know of a good one?

 

[Fire cat]

Uh... IRC?

Damn, back to school now

 

[Cheekiweeki]

Uh... IRC?

Damn, back to school now

Thanks so much Fire cat........... hope you had a good day at school today.

I have looked at several IRC sites and feel that mIRC looks like the best. I have never had the need or used IRC before so not sure how it works. I have read up on Wik but so much jargon!

I have Clients ......... say 10/20 at a time that I want to have on line at one time, maybe for 4 hours or so. I need for them to be in the 'room' so I can text them information as it is fed to me. It needs to be a private room and I need to be in control of the input and 'chat' - do you think mIRC is good for these requirements? :ciao:

 

[Adama]

I'd recommend MS Office Communicator. It has multiple functions as well.

 

[Cheekiweeki]

Thanks Adama - I was looking at the Google 'chat' too - I will look at MS Office - has to be something easy that my Clients can click on to as well.

 

[kitesurfa]

Pidgin is another free chat client worth a look - http://www.pidgin.im/

Supported chat networks:

• AIM
• Bonjour
• Gadu-Gadu
• Google Talk
• Groupwise
• ICQ
• IRC
• MSN
• MXit
• MySpaceIM
• QQ
• SILC
• SIMPLE
• Sametime
• XMPP
• Yahoo!
• Zephyr

Portable version also available http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/pidgin_portable

 

[Nibiru2012]

Pidgin is a good little app, it's free and has lots of options for configuring it the way you want.

 

[Mychael]

I used Mirc way, way back when windows 95 was still about.
Anyway I recall you could set up your own room for people to access. You'd give it a name and away you'd go.
I used to have a book on Mirc but I'm afraid the Dodo took it with it to extinction.

 

[Cheekiweeki]

Pidgin is a good little app, it's free and has lots of options for configuring it the way you want.

Thanks Nibi - I have loads to try out now so I think I will go see how I show this problem as solved. Have a good weekend.

 

[Cheekiweeki]

Pidgin is another free chat client worth a look - http://www.pidgin.im/

Supported chat networks:

• AIM
• Bonjour
• Gadu-Gadu
• Google Talk
• Groupwise
• ICQ
• IRC
• MSN
• MXit
• MySpaceIM
• QQ
• SILC
• SIMPLE
• Sametime
• XMPP
• Yahoo!
• Zephyr

Portable version also available http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/pidgin_portable

Thanks very much for all that info Kiti - enjoy a nice weekend.............

 

[Nibiru2012]

OMG! The gang here calls me Nibs for short and now Ms. Cheekiweeki is calling me Nibi... !! LOL!

Plus kitesurfer is now... kiti !

She must be one sweet classy lady! :star:

I bet she can bake one hell of a batch of Tollhouse Cookies! :eating:

 

[Cheekiweeki]

OMG! The gang here calls me Nibs for short and now Ms. Cheekiweeki is calling me Nibi... !! LOL!

Plus kitesurfer is now... kiti !

She must be one sweet classy lady! :star:

I bet she can bake one hell of a batch of Tollhouse Cookies! :eating:

M'Lord Nibiru2012

I stand here before you humbled by my latest indisgretion . Woe is me for taking such liberties! But in my defense............ by the time I get my little message page up to reply and have sorted out how to get the 'quoted message' inserted......... I then forget who I am replying to!!!! When I remember, I then am not sure of the spelling ...... so I thought the 'i' on the end worked well . As for the choc chip cookies....... no not really... but I am good with soups............... maybe 'cause I am always in it !!!!!!

 

[Nibiru2012]

It's all good! I just had to be a "little silly" I guess.

Hope I didn't cause you too much embarrassment.

 

[Cheekiweeki]

It's all good! I just had to be a "little silly" I guess.

Hope I didn't cause you too much embarrassment.

Not at all Nibiru - I thought it was great......... my reply was of course 'tongue in cheek' - looking forward to some more banteri ..........hmmmmmmmmm..... 'banteri' - yea that fits............ like another word that popped out the other day - 'puteroblems' ????