jesus X wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">This discussion overlooks the fact that there are alternative IM services. My situation (AOL subscriber, BTW) is that I have several Yahoo friends in Australia/Far East and want to know when they are available, along with my AIM friends who are exclusively US. No, I do not want to load multiple chat clients simultaneously....if they could make all
their money and charge $4.95 a month, they'd do it to get a huge market share.
And even if they do both but don't have to, what's wrong with that? They're a
business, and do so to make money. They lock out unauthorized AIM-clone clients
because that service is free, subsidized with ads, and they don't want someone
else using their network for free.
Rgds, Nigel L
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