OK, so does anyone else besides me hate that stupid away message that AIM defautly has for you? You can’t even delete it! I edited mine to say something aling the lines of how AIM is dumb for not letting me delete it. For God’s sakes, I can even delete the “Default Away Message,” why can’t I delete that? Why did they do that? What will happen if I somehow manage to get rid of it? Will the earth be destroyed? Will my soul be damned to eternal Hell? Why, I ask, is that stupid away message so important?
There’s plenty of other AIM clients. Trillian and AIMM are a couple.
Weird. I was editing my away messages today and had that exact same thought. Why is it that THAT message alone can’t be deleted? Maybe they have to have one away message available for some bizzare reason, and that was the one they chose to lock in.
It can not be deleted because AIM has a built in game playing feature. You can set up AIM with add-ins in such a way to create games of MS Hearts and Quake, among others. I don’t really know anyone that uses it, but it has been around for several versions of AIM, probably back to version 3.0.
Well that is your punishment for associating yourself in any way with AOL! 