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Heck no! I'll never pay! 448 90.32%
< $10 a year 32 6.45%
< $20 a year 7 1.41%
> $20 a year 9 1.81%
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Old 09-16-2003, 04:02 AM
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Would you pay for interoperable instant messaging?
Yahoo! is testing the waters to see if Messenger users would be willing to pay for interoperability with AIM, ICQ and MSN.

Would you be willing to pay if Yahoo provided compatibility with MSN, AIM and ICQ?
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Old 09-16-2003, 06:50 AM
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Yahoo! Messenger can only do Yahoo! and it's full of errors, and missing requests that users want.

If Yahoo! suddenly add another 3 platforms, I would predict more than 3 times the errors, and not something of a sufficient quality to pay for.

Just stick to the basic Trillian if that's your thing.
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Old 09-16-2003, 09:39 AM
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Yahoo! Messenger can only do Yahoo! and it's full of errors, and missing requests that users want.

If Yahoo! suddenly add another 3 platforms, I would predict more than 3 times the errors, and not something of a sufficient quality to pay for.

Just stick to the basic Trillian if that's your thing.
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Old 09-16-2003, 10:55 AM
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what freddy says is absolutely true... I think first Y! should fix the old bugs (without adding new ones, like done in v5.6)
sometimes Y! gets so annoying that you just have to shut it down so that it keeps quiet... okie no more complaining about Yahoo.... but what I said is true... and many will agree...
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Old 09-16-2003, 11:04 AM
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First off I would never pay for a service that I can get for free under a GPL license. Secondly I have to agree with Freddy, why pay for buggy software that never gets fixed for one protocol? Let alone 3 protocols!
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Old 09-16-2003, 12:54 PM
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i dont see my self paying yahoo nothing i hade to remove it from my pc i was keep gething disconected and cant log on problem i never had troubel with msn or the other programe
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Old 09-16-2003, 05:05 PM
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yahoo f up so i woud not pay for yahoo
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Old 09-17-2003, 08:16 PM
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theres trillian. unless it goes cheaper than trillian or free. but i probly never pay for a messenger again
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Old 09-17-2003, 10:03 PM
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There's more than enough free multi messengers out there such as EasyMessage and Miranda for people to rush out and buy one.
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