[ale] aim

[Christopher Fowler]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:16:20AM -0400, Josh Freeman wrote:
> One thing I've noticed about Gaim is that for a long time the latest
> release wasn't good at all. I've been keeping about one revision behind,
> and it seems to work great. For what it's worth, I just got the latest
> version of gaim, and that seems to be working fine.

I noticed that too.  I kept getting setting tags when people with
AIM would communicate with me

> 
> Josh
> 
> On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 10:02, da Black Baron wrote:
> > One word:  everybuddy.  Works for AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, AND MSN.  Of course,
> > Yahoo and MSN have recently started sending messages to the effect that
> > I'm running an "insecure version" of messenger, and that I need to
> > upgrade- but I think a tweak of the client ID would fix that.  
> > 
> > It's kind've like trillian for linux...  Open-Source, of course, and
> > everything.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 07:07, Geoffrey wrote:
> > > synco gibraldter wrote:
> > > > i just made a new account with aol's instant messenger service --
> > > > anybody else have one?  this list is great and all, but i wouldn't
> > > > mind have a few technical people in my list for real time
> > > > communication.
> > > 
> > > I have a yahoo account, and was using gaim, but with the competing 
> > > standards and all, I got tired of dealing with trying to make sure I 
> > > could hook up to everyone.  I used to leave gaim up all the time, but no 
> > > longer..
> > > 
> > > That's another side effect of Microsoft's approach to things.  Make them 
> > > incompatible so folks will have to user theirs.  Me, I just quick using 
> > > the technology all together.  Pretty sad..
> -- 
> Josh Freeman
> Technical Manager
> Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access
> 
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