> There is nothing like AIM left. In addition to the practical merits you've listed, nothing else sips bandwidth quite like AIM. Despite being the champion of

> There is nothing like AIM left. In addition to the practical merits you've listed, nothing else sips bandwidth quite like AIM. Despite being the champion of open-source communication, XMPP is fairly awful on low-bandwidth, high-latency links. AIM, partially as a product of the era in which it was engineered, doesn't care a bit.