The Letterville BullBoard: Instant Messanger Anyone? (Kinda OT)

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Posted by The Moon (Member # 452) on :

The drifting in and out lately side of the Moon here...

I was just wondering who all (if any) had a hotmail e-addresses and had downloaded MSN's Instant Messanger.

I have it and find it quite nice to go online and "see" when my buddies are online too. Now, at the risk of continueing to sound like Billy Gates promational slut ... if I'm feeling social I leave my status as "online" and if not... then I'm "away" or I can even appear "off-line" for those dark side of the Moon times. And... if I really don't want to deal with anyone interupting my surf time, then I can turn the whole program off a be totally "unavailable". (But that only happens once a month. )

I do enjoy Mirc and the Letterville chat channel, especially with the late night east coasters and the Aussies (during their lunch hour) at my midnight time zone (what a crowd!), but Instant Messanger is fun too.

Who knows... maybe there is already a whole "IM" crowd here and here I am paddling with one oar in the water again, but in case the subject hasn't come up yet... who's in?

http://messenger.msn.com/download/download.asp

The I'm "online" side of the Moon

Posted by AdrienneMorgan (Member # 1046) on :

I think a lot of us use AOHell's IM....

Never tried the others...
So...what's your handle,,, theotherjackie??

hehe
Mine is afireflygirl

[ January 13, 2002: Message edited by: AdrienneMorgan ]

Posted by The Moon (Member # 452) on :

Well, there's my blonde move for the week... I thought I had put my hotmail e-address in that post! Doh!

stefenie_harris@hotmail.com (I was so original when I signed up, eh?

Anybody else play in this chat software? Or is it just me and the Crazy A?

Posted by Stephen Deveau (Member # 1305) on :

Hey Stephenie
Were have you been?
Long time no see!

Hard at it we hope.

I don't like hotmail as they only allow you up to 250 block senders on list.
After that it's your problem.

Don't know about you but somhow I have been put on everyones E-Mail list and have to block anywere from 10-20 new hits a day.

It's worst than mailbox junk mail.

Glad to see your back.

Posted by Joey Madden (Member # 1192) on :

Isn't that simular to ICQ ?

With all thats going through the the lighter side of the moon, what ever happened to the Letterville " Cookbook "

Posted by AdrienneMorgan (Member # 1046) on :

Hotmail isn't my fav either....I've abandoned several of them because of junkmail.

Also, you are very limited to the amount of mail you can store in your folders on Hotmail (well, it's free)

I like to keep a Hotmail acct only for when i travel, but now that I've found how to access my own mail from a remote site I will prob abandon the HM.

Posted by cheryl nordby (Member # 1100) on :

I have both aol IM and msn IM. Yep it is great fun to chat while you work! I used to have ICQ...but it seemed to constantly mess up my computer so I removed it.

Posted by Linda Silver Eagle (Member # 274) on :

Hay Stefenie,

I use the IM with my sister, she likes the emoticons. She of course, had talked my mother into trying it and my brother, well, Lord knows how he ended up on it hehehe.My daughter, Jenny, loves it too.

I'm known as (S)LindaSilverEagle(*)

lindasilvereagle@hotmail.com

my icq# is 60434646

you'll have to email me and let me know you're gonna be there though hehehhe...i barely find time for mIRC as it is...hehehe.

Posted by cheryl nordby (Member # 1100) on :

woops.forgot to say my msn name. signsbycheryl@hotmail.com aol is surfincheryl

Posted by Benji Mcentire (Member # 2442) on :

Hey everyone ,,, if you dont like Hotmail you do not have to use a hotmail email account to use messenger their site on one hand leads you to beleive that you do, but you dont, I dont remember the way to go around this option but you can, they put the step of making a hot mail account first in order to get this. I use my Email account here

if anyone wants to add me to theirs please do so,

benjimc@alltel.net

Posted by Kissymatina (Member # 2028) on :

You don't have to use a hotmail email acct as your acct for MSN Messenger. You need to have a passport to sign in (which, when MSN bought hotmail, they turned all the hotmail accts into passports). They use these same passports to sign into other sites/services MSN owns. You can also get a passport without a hotmail acct, using your regualar email acct. I have MSN and when I opened it, on sign-in page, there's a link to get a passport. It takes you to a page to sign up for a hotmail acct or a link to get a passport without a hotmail acct.

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