Comments on: AOL IM, stay out of my contact list http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2005/11/aol-im-stay-out-of-my-contact-list/ Shedding some light on topics of software development, Visual FoxPro, saving our planet, paying it forward, and anything else I find important enough to share. Sun, 13 Jan 2019 18:50:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Rick Schummer http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2005/11/aol-im-stay-out-of-my-contact-list/comment-page-1/#comment-1056 Rick Schummer Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:07:12 +0000 http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2005/11/aol-im-stay-out-of-my-contact-list/#comment-1056 My kids use AIM to communicate with their friends. We never have a busy phone at home. Remember how our parents yelled at us to get off the phone as teenagers. Does not exist today. AIM is their world, and I am trying to fit into it. {g}<br /><br />My son just signed up with Skype, but for some reason it is not connecting at the University of Michigan. Not sure why yet, but he cannot even connect to a test call. Might be a block on the router, but that would be strange. My kids use AIM to communicate with their friends. We never have a busy phone at home. Remember how our parents yelled at us to get off the phone as teenagers. Does not exist today. AIM is their world, and I am trying to fit into it. {g}

My son just signed up with Skype, but for some reason it is not connecting at the University of Michigan. Not sure why yet, but he cannot even connect to a test call. Might be a block on the router, but that would be strange.

]]> By: Toni M. Feltman http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2005/11/aol-im-stay-out-of-my-contact-list/comment-page-1/#comment-1057 Toni M. Feltman Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:08:24 +0000 http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2005/11/aol-im-stay-out-of-my-contact-list/#comment-1057 Why don't you use Skype to IM with your children? I feel much more secure with Skype. <br /><br />BTW, we just had a great Skype experience. We never seem to have very good luck calling home from Europe even with calling cards. We can't seem to put in the right codes at the right time. Germany was the worse.<br /><br />During our recent trip to France I took my headset along and we called home with Skype. In 7 days, I had one incident of a bad connection. When I hung up and called back, it was fine.<br /><br />The best part is that I bought 10.00 euros the day we arrived and we called home every night to talk to Mickey, check the office voice mail and I called my mom once too. When we got back home, I had to go onsite for a week. I called home with Skype every night as well. None of the phone calls were short and one was close to an hour. I still have 6.26 euros in my account. Amazing! Inexpensive <b>and</b> easy to use. I like it. Why don’t you use Skype to IM with your children? I feel much more secure with Skype.

BTW, we just had a great Skype experience. We never seem to have very good luck calling home from Europe even with calling cards. We can’t seem to put in the right codes at the right time. Germany was the worse.

During our recent trip to France I took my headset along and we called home with Skype. In 7 days, I had one incident of a bad connection. When I hung up and called back, it was fine.

The best part is that I bought 10.00 euros the day we arrived and we called home every night to talk to Mickey, check the office voice mail and I called my mom once too. When we got back home, I had to go onsite for a week. I called home with Skype every night as well. None of the phone calls were short and one was close to an hour. I still have 6.26 euros in my account. Amazing! Inexpensive and easy to use. I like it.

]]> By: Rick Schummer http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2005/11/aol-im-stay-out-of-my-contact-list/comment-page-1/#comment-1058 Rick Schummer Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:50:57 +0000 http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2005/11/aol-im-stay-out-of-my-contact-list/#comment-1058 Trillian did not stop this intrusion either in AIM. As for FireFox and the word verification, it works fine for me, I use FireFox 95% of the time (the only 5% I don't use it is for Microsoft.com pages). Trillian did not stop this intrusion either in AIM. As for FireFox and the word verification, it works fine for me, I use FireFox 95% of the time (the only 5% I don’t use it is for Microsoft.com pages).

]]> By: Randy Jean http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2005/11/aol-im-stay-out-of-my-contact-list/comment-page-1/#comment-1059 Randy Jean Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:43:08 +0000 http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2005/11/aol-im-stay-out-of-my-contact-list/#comment-1059 Never liked AOL. Not much of an IM user either, but when I was, I used Trillian. You may want to look into using that instead of AIM and see if this pollution stops. BTW, why doesn't Firefox like blogger.com? Word verification doesn't work. Never liked AOL. Not much of an IM user either, but when I was, I used Trillian. You may want to look into using that instead of AIM and see if this pollution stops. BTW, why doesn’t Firefox like blogger.com? Word verification doesn’t work.

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