Instant Messaging

[Munkay]

Well said Swirly, great post.

Generally I use one of the all in one messenger programs. I used trillian for a long time and currently I'm using gaim. Which you use is generally just a preference issue. The main problem you run into with the all in one messengers is support for extra stuff: file transfers can sometimes be hit or miss, webcams don't work in most, voice stuff generally isn't supported. For basic messaging they work fine though. So what I normally do is I have an all in one client running so that I can talk to the people I know on all of the messengers. Then I have the other standalone clients installed, but not running for the occassions when I need to use one of their extra features. Since they aren't running they don't really hurt anything other than taking a very small amount of harddrive space.

Quoted for agreement:)

Cheers,

Munk