February 26, 2001
11:37 PM Subscribe
Anyway, there's me flipping the bird to big ol' Corporate America.
posted by PWA_BadBoy at 12:07 AM on February 27, 2001
At some point, IM is just going to become as standard as e-mail... but we're not quite there yet.
posted by PWA_BadBoy at 12:09 AM on February 27, 2001
One pain in the ass is that some of my friends use Yahoo IM and some use MSN IM and some use ICQ. A standard would be nice, so I could put contacts from MSN into ICQ, for example. AFAIK, there isn't any way to do this at the moment.
posted by ajbattrick at 2:15 AM on February 27, 2001
posted by crushed at 3:04 AM on February 27, 2001
posted by lia at 3:40 AM on February 27, 2001
posted by kush at 8:17 AM on February 27, 2001
(I have a request in their support area, we'll see how they respond)
Personal experience getting the clients working would be preferable, and if it doesn't do Y! and ICQ, there's little point for me.
posted by cCranium at 8:49 AM on February 27, 2001
posted by Steven Den Beste at 8:51 AM on February 27, 2001
Oh god. Please no. And if such a hideous thing should come to pass, PLEASE let it be based on a decentralized open protocol! I don't want to be left out of the digital future, but there is no way I am going to install some big whoffly graphical ad-laden corporate spam-crap application whose sole purpose is to allow anyone to send me mini-emails at any time. I already HAVE an email client.
-Mars
posted by Mars Saxman at 12:08 PM on February 27, 2001
posted by Lirp at 4:44 PM on February 27, 2001
ICQ started bugging me a long time ago when they started adding every feature in the book to their system and ended up with a bloated buggy program. Who needs a web server in their IM client? ICQ has one, along with lots of other unnecessary features. While the benefits of every system being a server (the whole P to P thing) has been demonstrated, I'm quite content to set one up myself, thank you.
Even with gobs of memory and Hz to spare, I want a small simple IM program that I don't mind running all the time.
posted by mutagen at 9:46 PM on February 27, 2001
Y!'s small and clean and available through the web browser, which is pretty handy.
posted by cCranium at 5:27 AM on February 28, 2001
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posted by mathowie at 11:55 PM on February 26, 2001