.Mac vs AIM accounts

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mala

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Hi,

I don't know if this is the right forum but I'll give it a try, otherwise someone could redirect me....
Anyway, I use my .Mac account for AIM services, both with iChat on my Mac and the AIM client on the PC. It turns out that some buddies (also with ordinary AIM accounts) is not seen as online when I'm logged in with my .Mac account to the AIM service, but whlile logged in with a ordinary AIM account they are. It has nothing to do with pravacy or blocking settings, that is checked. What could be causing this? Is there something fundamentaly different between the two types of accounts regarding this?

TIA

Mala
 
Some older versions of AIM and its clones don't see .mac accounts in AIM.
These clients include all AIM clients for Mac OS pre-X (OS 9 and before), and a bunch of older Windows AIM versions and clones.
It is somehting to do with the TOC and Oscar formats incompatibility...
 
So wait... you can use your .mac username on the actual AIM service? I thought you could only talk to other .mac users, and only talk to AIM users with an AIM screen name.
 
Well, if everything is working properly, any .Mac account could talk to any AIM account and vice versa. That's the way it should work, but under som circumstances it doesn't, and that's my problem.

Regarding versions, I use iChat on the Mac and the latest (ver 5.9) AIM client on the PC so that can hardly be the reason. Hmmm, any suggestions?


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So wait... you can use your .mac username on the actual AIM service? I thought you could only talk to other .mac users, and only talk to AIM users with an AIM screen name.
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mala said:
Regarding versions, I use iChat on the Mac and the latest (ver 5.9) AIM client on the PC so that can hardly be the reason. Hmmm, any suggestions?
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You may be using those versions, but what are the people with whom you can't chat with using? If they're on an older version of AIM or AOL, then they won't be able to chat with you regardless of the version you're running if their's doesn;t support it. Along with the older versions of the official AIM/AOL programs, some 3rd party ones won't deal with the @mac.com ending to you nickname...it's considered invalid.
 
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