On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:38:39 -0800, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 23:39:01 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> I'm sorry if my question about AOL Instant Messenger offended anyone. I
>> really don't know what it is. I thought it might be some kind of chat
>> program similar to ICQ. If this is indeed the case, then my question is
>> not at all off-topic, as many of us do use some kind of IRC program with
>> Arachne. If someone would just please explain to me what kind of program
>> or service AOL Instant Messenger is, I would appreciate it.
> Sam .....you can play with AOL messenger, if you go to
> http://www.netscape.net/
> and set up a My Netscape account...I have
> not used it, because I don't want to be bothered, but it will work with
> any of the big-brows...I go with either IE3 or NC408....It is a
> proprietary thing, just like Yahoo Instant Messenger....IMO they are
> junk designed to straitjacket people into their respective
> sites/services....you cannot use them outside AOL/Netscapt or Yahoo..,
Hi Gregy,
Thanks, but no thanks. If it won't work with DOS, then I'm not interested.
Neither do I want to be bothered with anything that requires one of the
big browsers. ICQ is supposedly a proprietary thing also; however, someone
did write a DOS version named MICQ, and it works just swell for
communicating with the Windozers!
Sam Heywood
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
