From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 15:20:14 MST
I used to use these things a lot, and found Odigo to be an excellent
cross-service client. It has it's own netork, and used to talk Yahoo & AIM
very well when I used it. It's only problem was that it didn't talk to the
MSNMessenger network, which was the one I had the most contacts on; these
days, it appears to include MSNMessenger too. www.odigo.com
(btw, anyone who is interested can get to me on MSNMessenger using
emlyn_oregan@hotmail.com. Don't email me at that address, I never check the
email on it).
Emlyn
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jef Allbright [mailto:jef@jefallbright.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 February 2003 2:39
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: Aim or ICQ, other messengers?
>
>
> Some of us have found that emailing with a member of the list
> directly can
> be very effective, and in many cases helps improve the list
> signal to noise.
> Something to consider.
>
> Once direct contact has been made, people may choose to allow
> direct access
> via IM. I use it every day, but limit access only to people
> I already know.
>
> AIM, Yahoo, and ICQ are very popular but don't inter-operate with each
> other. There's also Jabber which is trying to promote its own open
> standard, and there are others, such as Trillian, that
> attempt to provide a
> common front end to access more than one service. A newcomer that I'm
> watching is VeriChat, that attempts to provide full-time presence on
> multiple IM services with client being on your mobile phone
> or wireless PDA.
>
> - Jef
>
> Nathanael Allison wrote:
> > It would be great if I could get a few peoples opinions on things. I
> > don't want to send a dozen messeges over like 5 days just
> to find out
> > something that would take 5 minutes messageing. Plus, I
> don't seem to
> > get very many replies to questions I ask. Your time and wisdom would
> > not be wasted. Thanks, Nate
> >
> > (Lee, if you enjoy shooting down peoples wrong opinions
> than I'm sure
> > you'll have fun chatting with me)
>
>
>
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