I started with msn but it gave me problems - periodically dropping the connection!! As suggested by another member sometime ago, I have been using Adium worldwide without problems, having almost daily conversations with people in Europe, UK, NZ and Australia so I can highly recommend it!!! Occasionally something seemed to freeze but not sure what caused it having Mail, Firefox and Adium all on together - but this rarely happened considering that I have them all on most of the day!!! Paul On Dec 30, 2006, at 11:58 AM, doug rogers wrote: > > On 12-30-06, at 11:28 PM, Theresa Roth wrote: > >> Also, a member of MUGLO had recently suggested Adium as an >> alternative=20= >> messenger which allows any and all (?) accounts. We downloaded it >> and=20 >> my kids love using it. Not sure what the link was but it was free!!! > > If you can get AOL to eventually respond to your requests for a > screen name, I believe iChat is usable. It does not however talk > directly with MSN. It can if you arrange a Jabber account. At this > point there is MSN for Macs recently released, Adium does great, > however and might just step in quite nicely. > > iChat also does Rendezvous. The others don't. If there are other > Rendezvous enabled clients on Macs in your network wired or wireless, > you can chat with them directly. > > There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. > __________<http://home.golden.net/~samu>__________ > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > For information about MUGLO: http://www.freewebs.com/muglo > ----------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------- For information about MUGLO: http://www.freewebs.com/muglo -----------------------------------------------------------