# Please recommend an instant mess. prog. that works with Yahoo and MSN.

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 7, 2004, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-an-instant-mess-prog-that-works-with-yahoo-and-msn/238759 "2004-04-07T15:38:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-an-instant-mess-prog-that-works-with-yahoo-and-msn/238759/1 "2004-04-07T15:38:23Z")

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Are there any instant messenger programs that can list friends on both Yahoo, MSN, and ideally AOL? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-an-instant-mess-prog-that-works-with-yahoo-and-msn/238759/2 "2004-04-07T15:46:17Z")

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> [@KidCharlemagne](#):
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> Are there any instant messenger programs that can list friends on both Yahoo, MSN, and ideally AOL? Thanks.

[Trillian](http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/) will do this - but there’s only limited features this way - no voice chat, webcams, etc. I didn’t particularly care for it, and ended up just using the individual programs again.

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-an-instant-mess-prog-that-works-with-yahoo-and-msn/238759/3 "2004-04-07T16:07:29Z")

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I prefer Easy Message: [http://www.easymessage.net/](http://www.easymessage.net/)
