Maybe the 1st step would be to push your friends: a) to try jabber or other gnomeeting servers since these are more open tollerant for any human b) to push your friends to see more and more how unscrupulous and discriminatory the arrogant Mikro$oft Empirer get the world in his closed-mind prison c) to tell your friends that lio and grub permits to install more than one and only one o s on their disk If poitn b and c require more time to learn people making a better choise in their live, maybe point a will offer a good solution. Your goal is *of course* to keep in contact with your friends!!! Success and have all a good sunday. Osvaldo. On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:24:43AM -0400, Lorenzo Prince wrote: > Hi. I am currently using CenterICQ as my instant messenger. It currently supports MSN messenger, which is good at the > moment cause I have a lot of friends who use it, some because they are visually impaired and it works very well with > JAWS and others "because it somes with Windows so why not use it?" The problem is that after October 15th we will no > longer be able to connect to MSN Messenger throu any 3rd-party apps as Microsoft is looking to get paid in yet another > area or something. They claim it's about security but we all know _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list