I have a service (It's a diplomacy play-by-email Judge) which operates via email. I'd like to add some IM capability as well, and Jabber seems like a fairly good place to start (and probably stop). What I basically need are the following:

• A non-interactive tool for sending Jabber messages, with an interface kind of similar to sendmail(8)/mail(1).
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So, some months ago I installed a Gale client. Now, like many such things, the same name serves to describe both the technology and the community, and right now I'd rather talk about the former.

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Since the conversation has come up yet again and yet again I've found that I've not written this document yet, this is the document of things I look for in an IRC client.

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I just had my first Polish IM spam.

kosai waved something called Gale at #chiark earlier today. It appears to be a sort of merge of "traditional" IM models, IRC and distributedness. On the irritating side (for obvious reasons) servers appear to have to have "proper" internet presence.

Hmm...