On Thursday 14 August 2003 07:52 pm, Ed Skinner wrote:
> Thanks for all the comments. I am accumulating a complete list and
> will post it when the discussion slows.
> Here are some follow-up questions I have.
>
> 1) Instant Messaging (Alan Dayley) - Are we talking AOL for the great
> majority of naive users? Do they expect to login to AOL (and does AOL
> support logging in from Linux -- I thought they had special Windows-only
> software?)
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.
Alan
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