I said I'd post about this in the TA-NPO conference call...

MSN messenger was mentioned as a possible way for members of our priority area to stay in touch. I said that it wasn't necessary to use the Microsoft messenger program to chat through MSN. As long as you don't need voice and video chat, you can instead use Gaim. Currently, you would need to use this version of Gaim (get the "gaim-2.0.0beta3.1.exe" file) for it to work with MSN, at least on Windows. By the way, if you don't already have an MSN ID for chatting, you can get one by creating a Microsoft Passport Account.