I'd like to chat to someone/anyone vaguely fannish, but...

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... my multi-messenger doesn't work.

What's the word on using Skype for chat? I don't have a microphone, but it works also as a text messenger, doesn't it? Anybody here on it?

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A multi-messenger is an instant messaging software that...

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you can use to talk to all (or most) of the different IM clients. I prefer it to having half a dozen IM clients installed on my machine, but it does have compatibility issues quite frequently. (There are different multi-messengers, but they all have issues. I'm currently using Pidgin; I've also used Trillian and Miranda.)

Re: A multi-messenger is an instant messaging software that...

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I've had good results with Meebo, personally. It's a web page, not a program (although they do have an app for the iphone), so you just log into a meebo account and it launches any messenger programs you have set up.