At 06:41 PM 08/30/2001 +0200, Eugene Leitl wrote:

Gale http://www.gale.org/ seems a well thought out infrastructure. Is the consensus "this is it", or have I missed any alternatives?

Jabber seems to be emerging as the main cross-ISP instant messaging platform. I'm not sure how much security it offers, but I've heard that somebody's doing something along those lines.