Chat client

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Chat Client is the name used for alternative engines to messengers such as Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL. Several offer limited services with only IM/PM ability while some offer combined messsenger services with Yahoo!, AOL, or MSN, among others, combined into one. Most chat clients offer alternatives for Yahoo! messenger which offers options for entering rooms. The best-known yahoo chat clients are yazak , ymlite and yahelite.

Contents 1 List of clients by service 1.1 MSN 1.2 Yahoo! 1.3 AIM/ICQ 1.4 Google

[edit] List of clients by service

[edit] MSN

• MSN Messenger
• Windows Live Messenger, the successor to MSN Messenger (runs only under Windows XP and newer).
• Windows Messenger (not to be confused with the Messenger system service) (the name of a version of MSN Messenger bundled with certain versions of Windows XP)
• aMSN
• pebrot
• Gaim (Adium X is the Mac OS X version)
• msncp
• Sim

[edit] Yahoo!

• Yahoo! Messenger
• Yazak
• YmLite
• YahELite
• YahEh (Does still work but has not been updated in a long time. You must disable the 'Join chat on YCHT' due to Yahoo!'s shutdown of the YCHT protocol.)
• Yam
• Gaim/Adium X
• Zinc (Recursive acronym for Zinc Is Not Curphoo)
• Cheetachat
• Curphoo
• Curfloo (proprietary but sources are provided, much like XV image viewer)
• YMSK (Does not work due to Yahoo!'s shutdown of the YCHT protocol)
• Overdose (same as YMSK)
• Sim

[edit] AIM/ICQ

• AIM
• Gaim/Adium X
• naim
• Sim

[edit] Google

• Google Talk