Re: does gaim do anything for you?

["Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp burghcom com>]

Go to the far right tab.  Click the button on the bottom left.  Type in
the nickname of the person you want to chat with.  This adds them to your
"Buddy List".  Go back to the original tab and double-click on them.  You
should be good-to-go.

-Brian

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Paul E Johnson wrote:

> My daughter wants to use AOL Instant messenger. I don't know what it is,
> but I signed her up and installed gaim from the helixcode distribution.
> It takes the name/password and starts up, but nothing happens.  We have
> friends who say they are online and we try to send them a message. gaim
> responds "user is not available."  But we call them at that instant, and
> they say they are there.
>
> Possibly a related gaim problem is that, in the Online window, it shows
> the names of the lists, but it won't show the names of any of the
> buddies within the list.
>
> I've downloaded the aim-beta client from AOL and get basically the same
> results, it cannot find any users.  The aol client logs into the OSCAR
> server, while with gaim I've tried both OSCAR and TOC.
>
> I'm wondering if I'm behind some kind of proxy server or something. I've
> got a cable modem, but I don't know that any firewall exists at the
> cable company.
>
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