Alternative Messengers?

Looking for a substitute for the yahoo messenger that might solve some problems I've been having, I ran across the following list and wondered if anyone is a messenger specialist or knows any of these that are listed.
http://www.oldversion.com/talk/showthread.php?t=1092
thanks.

abri

 

I use Pidgin. Gaim is no more, as it was renamed.

It works great.

 

First what kind of problems you have,than we talk solutions.

 

I really like trillion. http://www.trillian.cc/ . The free version works nice. I have used it before. Understand about yahoo. Its been buggy of late. And bloated super bad. Hope that helps.

 

I like trillian, too. Trillian 3.1.5.0

Available at MG at

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Trillian_d680.html

 

unwanted pm's despite the proper setting and booting ... I use an older version of the yahoo messenger with a piece of software tacked on that takes out the ads. I've tried YahElite, but it's glaring ... I expect there's a way to simplify the layout so it doesn't have a million buttons.

To other posters
Thanks for all suggestions


abri