On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:51:03PM -0600, oskar nl wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:51:16AM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > > > >>The kids have given me a username eg. 'user.name@hotmail.com' and a > >>password to go with it (an English word). I've tried these in gaim, > >>kmerlin and everybuddy; none of them can connect and it doesn't look > >>like it's because they've given me an invalid username/password. gaim > >>(v0.58) is the least informative; when I try to connect, it responds > >>very quickly with a dialog saying > > > > > >Kopete in KDE 3.2 gets the job done. > > The problems with the accounts, are 'cause newest protocol for the > messenger, That solution about kopete is good since, you want upgrade > all the dependencies, but if you wana get a BIG THANKS for the kids I > recomend, amsn 0.83, isn't part of Debian/Woody(I don't know sid, or > sarge), but is GNU, based on GTK+/Tcl/Tk, looks almost identacally, and > should not be a trouble for the kids. Many thanks for this - downloaded amsn and it worked straight away. The kids seem to be happy with it too. I've downloaded kopete and gaim0.71 as well but I've got to sort out some broken dependencies before I can try compiling them on woody. Cheers, -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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