Win32 IM clients

[that_punk_guy]

I'm asking here because you guys understand the need for software that isn't crap! :-D

I have friends that use AIM, MSN and Yahoo. Besides the fact that the only one of these I would dream of running on my machine is the Yahoo! IM, having three messangers running at once is ridiculous, so I looked for an inter-compatible client. GAIM was my first stop. That has to be the most godawful, buggy program I've used in a while.

If GAIM actually worked like it's supposed to, it'd be perfect. But it doesn't.

Now a Jabber client (and there are many) will do what I want, via gateways and so on. But I don't particularly like the idea of uploading the password to my accounts onto a third party server. Am I being unnecessarily paranoid?

Or does anyone know of an alternative to GAIM that doesn't crash, pretend to save files but never quite manage, screw up my buddy list, etc?

 :-?

[that_punk_guy]

Cheers dudes :-)

Right now I'm deciding between Trillian and Miranda.

I did know about Trillian, but someone had told me it had spyware, turns out that was FUD. Trillian doesn't look too bad if you skin it, although I wish there wasn't a seperate group for offline buddies. Seems a bit counter-intuitive.

Miranda's a strange one.

(Yes, she is ;-))

[that_punk_guy]

Heh... (un)fortunately for me, I have about 3 contacts.

 :-D  :-(