[ale] aim
Josh Freeman
josh at catea.org
Thu Sep 18 10:16:44 EDT 2003
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.
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..
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Josh Freeman
Technical Manager
Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access
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