HI Craig, Potentially i have miss interpreted your question but we are currently looking into Rocket Chat...... Essentially host your own Slack. https://rocket.chat/ The bundles are super easy to deploy and you can have win/linux/mac/android/IOS clients. NIck On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 18:39, Mick via luv-main <luv-main(a)luv.asn.au> wrote:

On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 11:09:36PM +1100, Nick Evans wrote: looks like even more of an overkill than running ircd or something. really, all i want is something simple for me and my partner to pass quick notes to each other occasionally (probably not even a few times per month)...mostly notes that aren't worth even the bother of spending 30 seconds sending a quick email. pidgin's bonjour plugin would be more than adequate if it was reliable - minimal configuration, no server required. chat peers just find each other on the LAN. when it works, it's good. the trouble is that it often loses the ability to see or communicate with other clients. can usually be resolved by restarting both clients, but having to yell out "hey restart pidgin, i want to send you something" defeats the purpose of not wanting to yell out or interrupt my partner when she's busy. this isn't a selling point for me. slack seems to only have a purpose if you pretend that things like irc and xmpp and email don't exist. just one more "cool" reinvention of the wheel with obligatory tie-ins to yet another corporate overlord, another great opportunity to turn myself into a product. and fuck yeah, why not do it with nodejs or some other security-nightmare dependency on untrustworthy code repositories? seems like a lot more work than just running ircd or jabberd. craig -- craig sanders <cas(a)taz.net.au>

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 11/1/2018 8:21 AM, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: I don't see the big fuss, personally. It's already on your boxes, unless you're running something like ewboontew, and then I'm sure it's an apt away in any case. talk <user@hostname> No need to get fancy or reinvent the wheel, it's still relevant and reliable. One thing you WILL need to do is open up UDP port 517 between both machines. You may also wish to create a friendly entry into your /etc/hosts. Erik had also mentioned some others, but all UNIX machines since 4.2BSD have talk. I wouldn't use wall - the only messages people send out to everyone anyway is sent with 'shutdown -r now Going down, Mr. Tyler?' - -- Bradley D. Thornton Manager Network Services http://NorthTech.US TEL: +1.310.421.8268 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus