There are three answers to this question. First, BitWise is different because it is not supported by advertising or spyware. When using BitWise, whether the program itself, the website, or the forums, there are no distracting ads. Along with this comes an increased privacy--BitWise doesn't need any information about you to target ads to you. Secondly, BitWise is committed to providing high-quality software. Software quality has declined rapidly in the past few years, which is unacceptable to us.

No, BitWise is a separate service from the others. There are a number of reasons for this, but mostly it is because we don't want to deal with reverse engineering a protocol and then relying on it for our services. This strategy has proven problematic for other chat software, and such problems were what inspired BitWise in the first place. Most importantly, when we make our own protocol, we can add the features that we want to add, without worrying about compatibility with existing software.

No, no, no, and no. Sorry! However, I'm always open to communication via email. I prefer email and message boards for communication, because I can be more long-winded that way. ;)

Okay, the iPhone is cool and a marvel of system engineering. But if you take out the phone part, leaving the iPod and the PDA part then throw in 80+Gigs of storage. Throw in wireless and Bluetooth connectivity…and you’ve got the iPodPDA–or the IPoDA or the iPDA. —Darn, I would take a day of leave and stand in line at the Apple store to buy that on the first day.

Yes, Fedora comes with an instant messaging program called Pidgin. When you use Pidgin, you can use MSN Messenger, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, and Jabber, all at the same time. To start Pidgin, click on the Applications menu, go to "Internet," and choose "Internet Messenger." Under the "System" menu in the tray, choose "Preferences" and then "Fonts." Now simply drag & drop your fonts into the "Fonts" window to add them.

Sorry, I do not have AIM, and I only give out my email adress to good friends. Besides, what do you need those things for? There's Neomail, and I always reply. Well, if your mail makes sense, that is, ofcourse ;)

We will be discouraging players from using these means to communicate in-character with other players. We ask that you keep all such conversations OOC and do not pass information that would not be known by the other player in the game. If caught passing IC information via OOC means, a player could receive consequences.

No, I am not a chat service. I enjoy meeting people in person. I also need to work on my computer uninterrupted so that I can focus on what I am studying. Therefore, I choose not to subscribe to any chat service. I will be pleased to answer most of your questions by email. For legal reasons, I can not answer explicit questions so, please, do not ask.

We have a public gateway option so that you can communicate with people on all of the common IM networks as well (although that communication obviously will pass over insecure networks and cannot be considered secure.) Your company will need to make a business decision to allow this or not.

BitWise* is an automated message system, and cannot be added to your contact list. *BitWise* can inform users of different events, such as when they are added as a super buddy, or when someone adds you to their contact list.

World Verge offers its members Instant Messaging compatibility which allows you to use popular Instant Messaging programs while on the World Verge service to chat live online with friends and family. You can chat with friends and family using all Instant Messaging programs including AOL, ICQ and Yahoo.

I'm sorry, no. I only use messengers to talk to my friends and co-workers. Please, respect my privacy. My works are protected by copyright law, which means it's illegal to use them without my permission. Please read the Terms of use to see which kind of use I permit.

I almost never use ICQ/AIM, due to people who I don't know who added me to their list "just to chat". I don't really "chat". I don't talk at all unless there's a reason to. Don't get me wrong, I'm not hostile, but I honestly have nothing at all to say most of the time. I use IRC a lot, simply because there are numerous people in a channel ordinarily, so it doesn't matter if I don't say anything at all for a long time, if I don't have anything to say or my hands are hurting.

On AIM: iNfiT3273, as well as several that nobody knows of besides myself. :Þ On ICQ: 13617046. My AIM screen name is TifNi spelled backwards, and the attached number is a relic of an old email, picard3273@aol.com. Can I borrow some money? (asked primarily during lunch and after I was presented a scholarship at an assembly) I'll lend you money for lunch and the bus. I won't lend you large sums of money because those savings bonds don't mature for a while.

Kevin Nash does not have a private email address. He does not use ICQ, AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. He does not visit chatrooms, sign guestbooks or post on Bulletin Boards. He does not 'keep secret names' that even we don't know about. If someone claims to be or know Kevin's internet identity, they are lying: he doesn't have one. Recently people have been forging headers from our website, these are also false - please forward us any emails that you receive like this.

Click on the "gateway icon on the toolbar (or right click on the system tray icon and select "Gateway Setup"), this should bring up the Gateways window. From the gateways window you can register with any of the listed gateways.

All major search engines, including Yahoo and MSN, are crawler-based. They regularly gather and update information about websites with the help of their robots; this is why they don't put much emphasis on other information-gathering methods. Often, their submission forms are not prominently placed, so it takes time to find out how to submit information to them.

Yes, emoticons are planned for inclusion in BitWise. After the release of Version 1 we will be moving the conversations to an HTML format, at which time emoticons will be able to be included, along with additional text formatting options.

If you don't merge your Yahoo! ID, you will have to maintain two separate email accounts - yourname@yahoo.com and yourname@sbcglobal.net.

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