From: "Geo." 

"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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> Since I don't know much about IM at all, and don't have any IM clients
> installed here,  I can only guess that it's because they either
> started as, or still are, AOL users, and AIM was right there in front
> of them so they got comfortable with it and learned how to use it?

ICQ was the leading IM client for a long time, then AIM hit them like IE
hit Netscape.

> That's odd, I haven't seen a Netscape icon on my desktop since I ran
> OS/2.  As I recall, none of NT 3.51, NT4, or W2K installs Netscape.
> Where does your Netscape come from?

I fired up IE, typed in www.netscape.com, and clicked on the download netscape.

Geo.

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