IM without a silo?

[Christopher Friedt]

Kevin Cozens wrote:
> William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>> I've been using ICQ for instant messaging for a while, via gaim, and it
>> works fine.  However, I can't send or receive messages from people who
>> use MSN or AOL or Yahoo! or anything else.  This makes me sad.
>>
>> The question:  Is there a way to have one IM setup that lets me send and
>> receive IMs from people in different silos?

I think you'd need an MSN account in order to send or receive on their 
'silo' ... but these days you can use any valid email account to create 
one, it doesn't have to be with hotmail or msn. Luckily there's 
encryption support too :)

~/Chris
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