RE: Trillian Messaging Software

["Richard M. Conlan" <conlar () rpi edu>]

In regards to the various Trillian posts:

* If you are concerned about it passing your information to Hotmail,
disable that feature, as it is an explicit option under Preferences.

* If you are concerned about how it stores passwords then do not have it
store your passwords. This really is not as bad as it sounds since most
people sign on and remain signed on all day, and therefore will only
have to go through this once.

* On the other hand, a good point was made about storing the passwords
in a standard way -- in fact, for most trillion users you would find,
say yahoo.ini, at:

C:\Program Files\Trillian\users\default\yahoo.ini

This occurs because during Trillian setup it suggests you leave the user
profile as "default" unless multiple users will be using Trillian.

* It DOES offer encryption between Trillian users, but only over the ICQ
and AOLIM service. It uses Blowfish encryption.

I have used Trillian for some time now, and think it is an excellent
program. I highly recommend it, and present the above points to contest
some of the objections that have been raised.

~Richard M. Conlan