Ok, I know AOL & AIM have always been kind of the newbie stuff, but I'm an addict to everything and can't let go. The thing is, I'm getting really really really tired of the little things that keep happening and haven't been taken care of. Such as, the warning button is still on AIM. Has anyone ever used it properly? Has it ever done anything useful in the first place? You either want to talk to someone or you don't. Warning them is like throwing a feather at them, doesn't do a blasted thing. I'm a little ticked especially now because for that 10th time I got warned by someone who had me on their buddylist and let one of their friends/family members use it. Guess who they decided to bug the heck out of? I really don't care about the warnings... the pop-up windows are a little annoying, but I can deal with it. What gets to me the most is when 50 people ask me why I got warned and by who 2 seconds later. Maybe I can get ahold of some ZDNet people who AOL might actually glimpse at. ::feeling much better:: Ya know, this forum is really really handy. :)

Hehehehe! ;)

The most I have gotten with the warning button is press it and then cancel (just to test).

I have one thing to say to you Justin:
http://www.icq.com/


Saeed
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Have that already. I'm still on a quest to find ways around that annoying green flower in the system tray. I liked Odigo, but I needed some of the features that it couldn't use with normal AIM/ICQ users. If they ever make it so everything is truly combined then I'll go back to using it, until then I'm stuck bugging the tech people over at aol (aka those auto-delete systems and paper shredding machines).

JustinK, I know exactly how you feel. Nothing to do with AIM, but I avoided ICQ for about 18 months just because of that stupid green flower.

I succumbed in the end. Apparently there's some way you can change the icon, and I don't doubt that there is, but I don't know how to (I also haven't really bothered, because I don't care much about the flower anymore. At least the privacy icon doesn't really LOOK like a flower...)

Dump AOL, download the AOL IM client, all will be good in the world. ICQ is better and what I use more than AOL IM.

Lol.. Icq rules! Though if you have 600+people on your list, and 50of them always online, it can get frustrating. I dun see the green flower anytime coz of the same reason :D. Though I would like to see it once.

I have both AOL & AIM. AOL is used for playing games like scrambler and such, and AIM is for when I want to be able to talk to people via IM without AOL being open. The problem is I get warned once (one little 3% warning) and everyone on my list blasts me with messages asking about it. I'm waiting for the AOL people to respond to the really long bug report I submitted when it ticked me off. I doubt they ever will (I tried to get them to even look into a small matter for 6-8 months and they refused to even see if it was on their end which it was). They never did fix the problem either. I'm just curious as to who thought of the warn feature and why the programmers went with it. Oh well. Maybe someone will buy out AOL at some point and make things better.

The green flower sucks. Get something cool here:

http://www.1001icqskins.com/ :)