On Thursday 14 August 2003 08:01 pm, Alan Dayley wrote:
> gaim is a very nice GNOME based IM application and supports various IM
> protocols.  Works great with AOL.  Go sign up and skip the software
> download. (I think they have a Linux client but I did not try it.)
>
> I have also successfully used KIT, a KDE AOL IM client.  Not as nice as
> gaim but if you are a KDE person, it works fine.
>
> No, you don't have to have an AOL account.  You sign up for a AIM account
> via the web.  Then, you put your user information in the IM client program.
> Tada, done.

PS Signing up for AIM is free as in beer.  I also have had very little email 
generated from just having the account.

Alan