>>>>> Jay Kline [Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:44:05PM -0600]:

> I used to use Everybuddy all the time, but found it was just not very stable 
> yet. I like the concept, but it will be a while before I try it again.  You 
> should try Gaim.  I am using v0.11pre15 (they have made many new releases 
> since then) and I almost never have any troubles with it (except when MSN 
> decides to act up).  Gaim works off a plug-in idea, making it easy to 
> add/remove protocols.  The only trouble is the orginzation it a little harder 
> when you have some people with multiple accounts, but nothing unbarable.  
> 
> http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

I'll second that, everybuddy has always randomly crashed on me,
whilst gaim remains running like a champ. Gaim seems to also be
much further along in development, and has implemented more
features for each protocol than everybuddy has (especially aim).

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