>It's mostly the client. I also don't want AOHell to use me as a subscriber number when saying they have x number of users.
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>I've looked a Trillian and don't care for the UI.
It's skinable - if you dont like it...change it!
There is also Miranda (which is even open source)
http://www.miranda-im.org/This one currently supports icq, msn, yahoo, gadu-gadu, tlen, Jabber, and even the icq corporate protocol. Not only all these IM protocol's but also 3 LAN ones (net_send, emLanProto, Vychat), and other goodies like the BNetMessenger one, even has a netmeeting caller and a whooole bunch of other plug-ins you can get for it.
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>>Is it the servers you object to, or the client? You could always use something like Trillian to connect to MSN, AOL, ICQ, Yahoo, and irc at the same time.
ICQ 10556 (ya), 254117