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Date:	Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:41:23 PST8
From:	"Larry Tawa" <laror2004@speakeasy.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Anyone instant message?

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In <51423.18.33.20.20.08.2003@constellation>, on 08/20/2003
at 06:29 PM, Michael Rakijas said:

>In a house containing one teenager and one pre-teen with like minded
>aspirations, I've been confronted with a request for instant messaging
>capability (they each did a Freelance presentation on it to persuade me -
>I think they're getting the hang of trying to manipulate me). As you
>might expect, with mass media being what it is, they want AOL Instant
>Messager (AIM). For reasons that many an OS/2 user should understand, I'm
>inclined to set them up.....
snip
>Also, there are OS/2 clients for ICQ. I've found AICQ. Unfortunately, it
>is text mode and given the nature of the request is not likely to go over
>well. IceCQ looks like an option and is $16 to register. However, pwICQ
>looks reasonably featured, although I haven't yet registered for an ICQ
>ID yet to try it out and appears to be free to use. The kids, being AIM
>focussed, are pushing just to use the Java client of AIM (AIMExpress).
snip
>Any other
>suggestions are welcomed. Thanks in advance.

Rocky,

OK this post is rather late :)) but......

My nieces who used eCS 1.1 for web browsing were also Instant Messaging
(IM) on eCS 1.1 via http://www.aim.com/ some time ago without my
knowledge...... I am not sure what they did.

Well when I upgraded the nieces to eCS 1.2, the aim.com website (whatever
they accessed) broke; I checked your thread on the SCOUG mailing list
without a good solution apparent; I remembered Mr. Message for OS/2 and
when I was in Valencia last weekend I installed the most recent version at
the time. The kids are having fun, IM works.

From the VOICE news mailing list: the latest version of Mr Message for
OS/2
You can download it here:
http://mamodeo.dyndns.org/MrMessage_bin_02202005.zip
or with the full source code here:
http://mamodeo.dyndns.org/MrMessage_srcbin_02202005.zip

There is also a WarpIn installation package here:
http://mamodeo.dyndns.org/MrMessage_02202005.wpi

HTH you or someone else on this list.

Disclaimer: Me and the boys here do not IM.

Regards.

Larry
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