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Trillian connects to multiple accounts in AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN and Yahoo!
I have no problems at all to connect to MSN through Trillian.
Check your Status Window for MSN for error messages. Click MSN medium icon, the BlueBall ;), and select Toggle Status Window.
This seems to be similar to my Online Status Indicator for AIM, ICQ, MSN, Odigo, Tencent QQ and Trillian that has been available for over a year! 🙂
Quote:quote:Originally posted by magistykAre you talking about the regular Trillian for Trillian Pro?
I am talking Trillian Pro, but I want to see how the popup looks in MSN Messenger.
The purpose of Trillian is to make it possible to communicate with the 5 major messaging networks (AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo). Why invent another one?
You can contact a Trillian user on any of the five mediums available.
I asked for help from someone who know someone who works for AOL. As AOL don’t respond to e-mail, there is no way to contact them to release inactive screennames for registration.
This should be rather easy to accomplish for a DBA at AOL…
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*sigh* If only AOL wasn’t full of idiotic employees….–magistyk
Some of them were really nice actually. Yet, they couldn’t help me. One guy suggested that I should sign up for a free month to see if that could get me screenname back. He said that I could cancel it within a month.
There is more to the story. I was told that I could sign up for a free month to get my screenname back.
Let’s take the story from the beginning. I searched Google to find AOL Sweden and ended up with http://www.sverige.aol.com/
On the AOL Sweden page there is a phone number for sign up and support so I called them. First of all, my call was transferred to someone English-speaking. Not that strange, after all it is an American company… Until I realized that I ended up at AOL UK. They were really confused when I said that I wanted to sign up in Sweden. I was transferred from person to person until someone knew that they weren’t offering AOL in Sweden anymore. It is strange that they still have their AOL Sweden page and local phone number working…
They wouldn’t even let me sign up at all.
I guess I have to move to England to sign up for a free month now.
I’ve talked to AOL support!! First line support couldn’t help me so I talked to her supervisor as well.
I found a phone number to AOL Internet support and called them. I had a hard time talking to them. They only wanted me to sign up for an AOL Internet account. Even if I did, I wouldn’t be able to get my old screenname back. I asked them to check that I haven’t been using my old screenname for several years and release it for registration again, but they refused. I also asked (the supervisor) about why they keep a lot of good screennames unusable… No answer, of course… Is that customer support or what?
Edited by – Tony on 09/24/2002 16:26:37
Wouldn’t it be better for AOL if they could say that they have a large number of ACTIVE users, instead of a large number of registered (most of them inactive) users?
Quote:quote:No, not at all, its in their interest to keep those screen names. After all AOL sell advertising based on the strength of the total user figures, why clean em up and maybe reduce your claimed lead by 30%?
Think about it, would you willingly reduce your income?On the other hand, it is probably easier to attract new users if they can use their real name as screen name instead of tony5489798.
The thing is, this name is no longer available to anyone. AOL could check their log files to see that I haven’t logged in for 5 years.
Doesn’t AIM accounts ever time out? What’s the point of keeping screen names for users who never log in?
Another way is to right-click your buddy and select Send File…
Or right-click the file in Windows Explorer and select Trillian: Send File To
