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On Sunday, June 2, 2002, at 08:31 PM, John Craig wrote:
> This is a question for the people currently working on the development
> of
> Fire.
>
> By the time OS 10.2 is released, do you expect that Fire will be able
> to use
> your itools account for AIM? The latest beta build of the AIM client
> can use
> your itools account (put in @mac.com). This is, however, useless for the
> time being, because people on your Buddy list (windows AND mac) also
> have to
> be using the latest beta build of the AIM client to talk with you.
> When I
> log in as [EMAIL PROTECTED], I can only see about 10% of the people
> who are
> really online. This obviously means that there's something in the
> client-side that is required.
> Is this something that Fire will be able to emulate (without starting
> another patch/update war with AOL again)?
> I have to say.. If it can't by the time ichat is released, that may be
> my
> time to give up on Fire. I know I'm going to get a lot of grief for
> this...
> But I originally started using fire in the public beta days because the
> AIM
> client then was horrid. No features and huge unwieldy IM windows. The
> support for the other protocols in Fire was icing on the cake. But now
> I'm
> starting to feel the effects of having to change clients every time
> someone
> wants to send me a file... or have a direct connection. But at least
> there
> are alternatives to that... email, ftp. Things I don't have to change
> clients to use. But now the AIM client is much improved (except for the
> big
> windows), and I really like the idea of being able to use my itools
> account
> on AIM, whether it's by AIM or ichat... Which I'm not yet convinced is
> going
> to be so bad. The bubbles are ugly, but I hear that you can turn them
> off.
> I'll have to see some of the other features.
> Anyway, I know Fire won't be supporting AIM file transfer or direct
> connections anytime soon, but what about itools accounts?
I've filed a feature request for this:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=563733&group_id=33772&;
atid=409173
-Jason
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