What Instant message program do you use most?

iblis · Post by **iblis** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 1:11 am

i use icq and msn while in linux ala centericq. that's because ansi colors are cool. for irc, i use BitchX. (yet more ansi)

it does occur to me now and again that i could use gaim, but i've never really seen the point.

Nexxus23 · Post by **Nexxus23** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 3:56 am

Yahoo only. I got fed up w/ Trillian months ago... it sucks. I hate AIM because of all the guys from India looking for "friends"... Lonely bastards, don't they have late-nite porn shops in India? Gods...
ICQ just sucks because the number's too long for me to remember (I lose post-its) and screw MSN. SCREW MSN!!!

I've had a bad day. Can you tell? :evil:

gray · Post by **gray** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 12:35 pm

Pooh, no mention of Jabber in the IM list. So I guess I am the sole user of it around here. For the curious/brave here's how it works.

I have a Jabber IM server. I setup an account on said server. I can now talk to any other Jabber id on any other Jabber server. To talk to everyone else I have an ICQ account setup, but I am able to access it from my Jabber server. So my Jabber client can now talk to any ICQ person. In fact any Jabber client can talk to other ICQ peoples, so I can use Exodus at work (Win2k) and Gabber (Gnome) at home. But wait there's more. All of my acount profile settings are saved on the server so my contact list is always up to date where ever I log in from. That really rocks.

Check it out at Jabber.org.[/i]

-gray

sapphirerose · Post by **sapphirerose** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 3:46 pm

Mainly I use Yahoo, but here and there I'll use ICQ.
And I do have AIM, but I use it less frequently than ICQ.

digita1pixie · Post by **digita1pixie** » Wed Feb 26, 2003 2:04 pm

I use Trillian and Im logged into AIM YAHOO ICQ and MSN 24/7 except when Im sleeping or in EverCrack.

You notice how Arkady posts that he uses all these but hasnt PUT his info in his profile?!

For shame! *tsk* *tsk*

iblis · Post by **iblis** » Wed Feb 26, 2003 2:17 pm

i'm rather curious as to why the forum never shows me online. oh, wait. i'm always invisible.

doh.

grendelbrian · Post by **grendelbrian** » Wed Feb 26, 2003 4:44 pm

I use both AIM and Yahoo. I'm interested in the Trillian thing though. Does anybody have info about it? If I'm ever online drop me a line. I'm grendelbrian on yahoo and GundamBCustom on AIM.

Brian

Post by **darkvader** » Wed Feb 26, 2003 4:48 pm

As I said before - if you want a third-party IM client, skip trillian - it's hideous.

but give GAIM a shot ( http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ )

MahoganyDawn · Post by **MahoganyDawn** » Wed Feb 26, 2003 4:53 pm

You hush DV, if he wants to use trillian (like me) let him!

faeriegirl · Post by **faeriegirl** » Wed Feb 26, 2003 5:32 pm

http://www.trillian.cc

iblis · Post by **iblis** » Wed Feb 26, 2003 6:31 pm

gaim isn't that pretty, though.

creapyrob · Post by **creapyrob** » Wed Feb 26, 2003 10:48 pm

Just re fired up ICQ.

I'm old, 7 digit number.

mafiaman · Post by **mafiaman** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 12:46 am

Sorry, I'm a "Yahoo all the way" hardliner. Yahoo has never let me down in over 4 years of use. As an IM system or as free email.
I swear by it.

Tried ICQ, AIM, MSN and they all suck big ole' donkey dicks like there is no tomorrow.

Imp · Post by **Imp** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 1:00 am

Yahoo is my favorite, as well. Never tried AIM, but I've got msnm and ICQ. MSNM crashes bi-weekly at least, I keep it around since there are people I like on MSNM that don't have Yahoo. ICQ is a recent re-addition, haven't had it since 2001 or so and I'm not sure I like it much. Yahoo is to be preferred.

doctorthoss · Post by **doctorthoss** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 10:03 am

Yahoo is my general preference.

Post by **darkvader** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 10:17 am

iblis wrote:gaim isn't that pretty, though.

compared to trillian, it's beautiful.

of course, if you want pretty, you'll need Aqua.

For that, you'll want to try Fire. ( http://fire.sourceforge.net/ )

elasticwings · Post by **elasticwings** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:58 pm

I use GAIM to connect to Yahoo, AIM, and Jabber networks.

Hardcoregirl · Post by **Hardcoregirl** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:52 pm

elasticwings wrote:I use GAIM to connect to Yahoo, AIM, and Jabber networks.

How do you manage to dig up threads that are like 3 years old? And why?

vicious_blood · Post by **vicious_blood** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:44 pm

Hardcoregirl wrote:
elasticwings wrote:I use GAIM to connect to Yahoo, AIM, and Jabber networks.

How do you manage to dig up threads that are like 3 years old? And why?

I was wondering that, too....

Someone must be bored. Really bored.

iblis · Post by **iblis** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:57 pm

since it's dug up already...

'vader can be happy, as i'm a complete and total gaim convert now. (a few revisions after this conversation, they made it pretty. :mrgreen:

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What Instant message program do you use most?

What IM chatt program do you use?

Why no Jabber?

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