All I really want the  Yahoo Messenger for is so that regular card partners in Yahoo Card Games can tell if one another is "in the house" or not.  Will Trillian do this?

Thanks,
Anna Summers

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Tony Mayer 
To: [log in to unmask] 
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Yahoo! Messenger


IMO, you would be MUCH better off installing a 3rd party messenger
client.  Personally, I use Trillian.  It's free and works great -
doesn't install anything you don't want it to.  You can get the program
from http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/

Tony Mayer


generalstuff wrote:
> I tried to install Yahoo! Messenger, but stopped because it either
>
>     a. (default) installed the (unwanted) Yahoo! Toolbar into my IE, or
>
>     b. (custom) hijacked my default search engine, making Yahoo! my default search engine (it checked the box to do this and would not allow it to be unchecked).
>
> Is there anyway to cleanly install Yahoo! Messenger without their spy/ad/unwanted ware?
>
> Thanks,
> Anna Summers

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