I have similar experience & feelings about ICQ & IM. ICQ also caused some
compatibility problems with my set-up at the time. My friend in Bermuda & I
both chucked it. ICQ is a 4.1 Meg program. Pow Wow has some interesting
conference capability. It's a 3.5 Meg program. I suppose everyone on this
list could purchase Net Meeting or Conference. That would allow "white
boards" & video links, so you could see the face behind the keyboard.
An alternative is the free services offered by Excite & others. Members of
the Morgan International Community can also receive a toll free number in
the US for free voice mail messages & faxes. Yes, there are banner ads at
such sites, but there are commercials on television - unless you exclusively
watch PBS. And even PBS has those annoying membership drives!
Cheers,
Fred Kuzyk
Morgan Sports Cars International web community
http://mycomm.excite.com/mycomm/browse.asp?cid=.4g3TS2kkNzU
Where the membership is free and anyone in the world can post photos, links,
event dates, articles, discussion, files,
& meet for real-time chat on Morgans!
My Morgan Sports Car Club of Canada site:
http://members.xoom.com/msccc/
----- Original Message -----
From: <LSelz@aol.com>
To: <gomog@angelfire.com>; <morgans@autox.team.net>; <mcrossan@netcom.ca>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: Any Mailing List Members Use ICQ?
> Just my opinion - I've long since turned off ICQ and AOL Instant Messager
and
> Buddy Lists and all that. You hardly have time to do anything what with
> windows popping onto the screen and notifications pinging at you and
people
> waiting for answers. Maybe I just haven't gotten onto the right plane of
> consciousness for living in the new millenium and being totally connected
and
> all, but I tried them and quit using them both here and at work,
curmudgeon
> that I am.
>
> Why, when I was a boy, we had to stick our finger into a dial and turn it
> around and WAIT FOR IT,sonny boy, why you young whippersnappers, I
> oughta.....Come back here and take your caning like a man.....!
>
>
> Lannis
>
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