From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Trillian has ZERO ads that flash at you, and if you have contacts on
multiple lists, it consolidates them all into one.

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Glenn M.
"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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>I checked and Trillian Pro does do video chat.
>
> My wife and I only video chat with each other.  We tried using Netmeeting
> for this purpose, but even with routers at both ends set to DMZ, I
> couldn't
> get it to work both ways.  I could only get it to work one way only.  So
> we
> were forced to do one of the instant messengers.  We tried Yahoo but its
> software seemed a bit bloated and possibly buggy.  We both needed to
> reinstall it more than once and the Yahoo servers were often busy and hard
> to connect through.  So now we've tried MSN Messenger.  It seems a bit
> less
> bloated not as buggy and haven't had as many problems with their servers
> than we did with Yahoo.  However, its still plenty bloated and loaded with
> a
> bunch of cutsie kid stuff.
>
> MSN Messenger is free, so before I pop for Trillian tell me, if you would,
> why I should.
>
> I know its operable with lots of messenger clients, but that feature isn't
> important to my situation.  Is Trillian less bloated, faster, and better
> able to handle some older hardware than MSN 7.0???  Does Trillian do a
> better job of synching up video and audio, etc. during a video chat
> session??
>
> How is Trillian able to get its client to work with everyone else's
> client,
> but MSN, AIM, et al can't figure out how to do this?  Or are the instant
> messenger wars been long over and I just missed it?
>
> Thoughts anyone?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
>
> "Chris"  wrote in message
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>> I know it will do audio, but not tried video.  If you do, you *may* need
>> to upgrade to the "pro" version.  Please check their
website for details
>> and factual information as I have never tried it.
>>
>> http://www.trillian.cc/
>>
>> /Chris
>>
>>
>> Gary Britt wrote:
>> > Does Trillian do video and voice conversations over the internet
>> > between
> two
>> > computers?
>> >
>> > Gary
>> >
>> > "Chris"  wrote in message
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>> >
>> >>That's why I use Thunderbird.  It has all the
functionality I need/want
>> >>and none of the MS side-effects, such as msn messenger.  I like
>> >>trillian
>> >>MUCH better.
>> >>
>> >>/Chris
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>Glenn Meadows wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>OK, thanks.  What's odd, is that it never started till after
>> >>>yesterday,
>> >
>> > when
>> >
>> >>>I manually started it to do some testing with a video conference
>> >
>> > thingie.
>> >
>> >>>Now, the bloody things starts everytime I start OE,
even though I've
>> >
>> > turned
>> >
>> >>>off the Start Windows Messenger when Windows starts...
>> >>>
>> >>>Why do they make it so hard.....>GRRR<
>> >>>
>> >
>> >
>
>

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