Thanks for the Kudos Steven.
A little background. I know I am prone to hyperbole, but I could get a job reviewing intranet messengers. I have literally looked at and used over 30 of these over the past few years. I have the downloads to show for it and the lack of too much money for buying some. For some reason, many would work for a month or so and then all of a sudden forget what an IP address was.
Many had user licenses, which on a domain is awful, because each computer may have five users. so there is the potential for 35 users in our office.
I can tell you that WITHOUT A DOUBT IP Messenger is the best LAN messenging system ever made or at least that I have used. And, it is free. It does take a little tweaking to make it look good and work well, but we have used it for months now. The really cool thing about IP Messenger is that it not only detects the name of the PC, IP address of the PC and the user of the PC (on a domain), but it does all three at once. This is helpful, because Mary may be on the computer, RECEPTION, and Tina may be on computer CHECKOUT like usual. This way you always know who is messaging you from what computer. The IP address isn't that helpful, but it does begin to teach your staff (if they don't know) about IP protocols, etc. You can send to multiple people or one and you can send a locked message so a patient can't open it. Shouldn't have to do that much. The only bad thing about it is the icon, but we changed it to a small grey telephone. And, it's free.
I must say that this one was the last resort. I was just about to go with an instant messenger like Yahoo, etc.
It's kind of two different things at once. It is amazingly simple, but it is not user friendly at first. For example, I used it for five days, before I realized if you right click on the toolbar, many more options are available. And, they were exactly the same options I was looking for.
www.ipmsg.orgSteven, How can I learn to be concise like you?
