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.

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?

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

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.

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*

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

doh.

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

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/ )

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

gaim isn't that pretty, though.

Just re fired up ICQ.

I'm old, 7 digit number.

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.

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.

Yahoo is my general preference.

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/ )

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

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?

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.

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. )