[Techtalk] MSN IM alternative

[Dan Richter]

I looks like Microsoft has finally made good on its promise to lock 
non-MS clients out of MSN Instant Messenger. Does anyone know of a 
Linux-based client that still has access?

-- 
   Alexandre Maret wrote: this looks like: "my CPU is cooler when
   running Linux than DOS." Ha!, wrong example, on Pentium systems
   which have a halt instruction Linux DOES run [physically] cooler.
        - attributed to Ronald Schalk