Mike-

>You're right. It's supposed to be MSN. But does Trillian or ICQ accounts permit sending bigger chunks of text or are you suggesting alternatives to MSN?

Not suggesting alternatives to MSN, and if you have an MSN screen name you'd trust me with <s>, we could test it out. My ICQ# is 19366454. My MSN screen name is n_folsom@msn.com.

Update. Uh, duh. Yeah I guess I am probably suggesting that you use ICQ to send long messages. MSN does limit them. But if you run all your IMs thru Trillian, you can simplify your life somewhat. I presume you don't _always_ IM really long messages.