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.

No. I have already more than enough to do answering e-mails and posting on message boards. Also, I don't want to be distracted when working on the computer. My time is too scarce to engage in even more activities. Sorry, you have to contact me by e-mail or leave me a message in the guestbook or at the SCN. Anticipating questions is what an FAQ is useful for, and I am actually asked questions like these.

For me, something like ICQ would be a death wish. So don’t bother looking for me there, as you won’t find me. And don’t bother sending me those “looking for you on the ICQ network” messages; I ignore them. If you need to contact me use e-mail. Note that this also applies to MSN Messenger and any other similar service that might be out there. I don’t have one. No kidding.

The Messenger system is a proprietary interactive electronic system used by customers of Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company, Trunkline Gas Company, Sea Robin Pipeline Company, Trunkline LNG Company and Southwest Gas Storage Company for transactions associated with nominations, confirmations, allocations, capacity release, contracts, invoicing, which are categorized as Customer Activities, and Informational Postings.

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.

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.

You will now click on Import and Browse your hard drive to the location where you downloaded your ICQ skin, click on it and click open.

My ICQ number is 83387869. WARNING. My ICQ number used to be on my webcam page but I got A LOT of ICQs from a lot of random people and eventually tired of having to continually respond to ICQs from people just wanting to chat about nothing. So if you want to just chat, or stalk me, don't bother, I won't respond to your pleas to either get on my list or read your messages. My ICQ number is generally reserved for close friends.

Our Instant Messenger is a fun and easy way to communicate instantly with other users who are online now. You can auto-logon IM after you sign in "My Account". There will show up a window which includes the online users. You can chat with them by clicking their usernames respectively. If you want to log off, just close the online user list window. We are improving our IM everyday. Any suggestions you can provide are greatly appreciated. Please feel free to send us your thoughts.

The forms necessary to become a Messenger system user (Messenger System Service Agreement and Attachments A and B) are available from the Messenger Launch screen. Access this screen by clicking "Customer Activities" from the main website, then click on "Messenger Forms". Once the paperwork has been processed, you will be issued an ID and password.

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.

Remember, SOCKS support in SpoonProxy expires after 30 days and ICQ relies on SOCKS. So first make sure you are using either a non-expired demo, or that you have registered SpoonProxy or ICQ will not work. times out of 10, problems with ICQ are due to an invalid DNS configuration. Verify that DNS is mapped properly by attempting to ping something like www.microsoft.com from one of your client machines. It will time out, but it should resolve to an IP address.

There is (or was) an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channel called #asprin that meets occasionally on Dal.Net that discusses topics dealing with the series that Asprin has created. There is no known group that meets via ICQ for the same purpose.

MSN? Messenger is the Microsoft® software tool you can use to exchange instant messages with friends online. You can download it at http://messenger.msn.com/ for free. Windows? Messenger is the Microsoft messaging tool included in Windows XP. Windows Messenger only works on the Windows XP operating system. MSN® Messenger and Windows® Messenger both use .NET Messenger Service (previously called MSN® Messenger Service) and are interoperable.

Create a new folder in the directory C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\skins and rename it to anything you wish. Now you are ready to apply a your Yahoo! Messenger skin. Go to the main Messenger window. Click on the Login menu item, and select Preferences. Then click on the Appearance category. Choose a new Skin Theme by selecting one from the current theme drop down menu.

There is extensive on-line help available from every screen in the Messenger system. If you need help on a screen, simply click "Help" in the upper middle of the screen. Then click "Help for Current Screen" and help about the screen you were on will be displayed. You may also click "Help Contents" to open the entire Help document and select any topic.

No, because these programs require downloading, and WebTV terminals can't download software. That said, some people are recommending Freetown's IMN and Hot Messenger (I personally haven't used these and can't vouch for them). Though some press releases from Microsoft state that in the future WebTV will have access to Microsoft Messenger, this may be an example of "forward-looking statements"... meaning, "wait and see.

Open C:\WINDOWS\inf\sysoc.inf and change msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7 to msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,7 Then use Add/Remove Windows Components to remove messenger.