GAIM is an Open Source 'clone' of America OnLine's Instant Messenger client using the GTK+ toolkit. It features most of the functionality of the official AIM client while being much smaller and faster. It features multiple groups, group chat, user information fetching and registration, time stamping, sound (for when you really do want to be interrupted), multiple away messages, and probably a few other things. The official GAIM web site is http://www.marko.net/gaim/ - Jim