Originally posted by OnyxCouldn't you just PM the people you wanted to talk to or something?
I did PM someone for an IM name. They were on a grand total of once, IIRC.
People nowadays seem to be a lot more secretive about IM names and the like though. Back in the early I1 days before I had AIM, it seemed that everyone had their AIM names in their profiles.
That's exactly the reason I only let AIM names free. I've gotten crap adds from stupid Skype names, stupid YIM names, stupid MSN names... ...stupid ICQ names, most specifically. :|
I actually have never had much trouble with spam even from revealing E-mail addresses. The only times were with a Yahoo! account I rarely used and only had for a particular Yahoo! service and when I made the mistake of signing up with CashCrate.
Originally posted by OnyxThat's exactly the reason I only let AIM names free. I've gotten crap adds from stupid Skype names, stupid YIM names, stupid MSN names... ...stupid ICQ names, most specifically. :|
I rarely use Skype and ICQ, and I haven't used YIM in many many years, so MSN is really the only one I'm familiar with from there - but I always thought you had to approve someone for them to message you? That seems to me like it would knock out practically all spam.
I have my MSN address listed in several forum profiles on various places and I've never once received a spam IM.
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Originally posted by OnyxTo be fair, though... I pretty much stick with alternative clients for MSN. I haven't used Windows Live Messenger since 2007.
...Damn, I've been using Miranda IM for two years already? Where the hell did the time go?
I used to always use the official client (with Messenger Plus) but I switched to Digsby.. and just recently I switched again to Pidgin. I love eye candy so messing with alternative clients and addon programs is fun.
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I used Pidgin for a while, but now I use AOL's AIM program.
I'm a single-IM-service girl, I don't have AIM, YIM, and MSN open all at once like a lot of people, so I wouldn't get much advantage out of something like Trillian. In fact, except for a few times on YIM because I went to a board with few AIM users, all of my IMing has been over AIM.
Originally posted by TerraI used Pidgin for a while, but now I use AOL's AIM program.
I'm a single-IM-service girl, I don't have AIM, YIM, and MSN open all at once like a lot of people, so I wouldn't get much advantage out of something like Trillian. In fact, except for a few times on YIM because I went to a board with few AIM users, all of my IMing has been over AIM.
I actually don't really use any IM services other than MSN. On Pidgin, I have... MSN (obviously), an AIM account with a total of 0 people on it, and a Google Talk account which I use for the free SMS service.
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Originally posted by TerraI stopped using AIM for a while when they had talking ads, but when I got my new computer, they apparently had dispensed with them
The rollover ads are still annoying though, as it's easy to roll over something by accident.
Yeah, ads are the main thing I hate about official clients. I refuse to use the official MSN client without A-Patch, which removes a lot of the pointless bullshit on it. "CLICK HERE FOR ______!" "BUY ______!" "GET NEW EMOTICON PACKS!" etc etc
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I actually once thought that AIM was an Acmlm's-only service IIRC, I backronymmed it to "Acmlm's In Motion". I was surprised to find that it was AOL, because the ISP AOL wasn't popular at the time.
Originally posted by OnyxYIM was one of the official clients I disliked most, now that I remember it.
MSN Messenger was fine, I liked being able to set individual backgrounds... but IMvironments and text gradients were ridiculous.
...I happened to use the gradients, though it was far less of a crazy gradient and more of a subtle fade.
Wait, weren't IMvironments in YIM, not MSN? And I don't remember MSN ever having gradients.. unless you count Messenger Plus which supports them (pretty cool actually)
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I was just comparing the two there, sorry if the wording was a bit off.
MSN Messenger's gradients pissed me off, and still do. If you're not using MSN Plus or whatever, or an alternative client... they just show up as crap.
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IIRC, I backronymmed it to "Acmlm's In Motion". I was surprised to find that it was AOL, because the ISP AOL wasn't popular at the time.