Gmail use grows on college campuses

It allows IM in the corporate network.: Virtually any corporate network IT group worth it's salt blocks all incoming and outgoing IM clients and protocols. Our company does. Since you can launch the IM client on the web page, it is using standard port 80 (which we are authorized to surf once we enter our password to access the proxy out) and poof, you can IM all your colleagues. IT is happy, they can monitor the stream, no firewall holes, security is much more solid than poorly written clients, etc.

Amazingly enough, people who had been using the new MS sharepoint IM client at customer sites are dumping it for IM because they can communicate with all their suppliers (me, other support people) in an IT friendly, non proprietary way.

I have an email account, but only use it as my spam email when I have to sign up using an email address. I still keep all my mail locally, deleting from the server once downloaded.

TripleII; Posted by: TripleII Posted on: 08/21/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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