Do you know of any webmessengers?

[Larissa]

Yeah, I'm looking for webmessengers. That is, an instant mesenger that can be used online. I'm looking for more, mainly because they blocked the good ones at school.

The ones they've blocked are:
Meebo (http://meebo.com) (We managed to get on using a URL along the lines of http://216.129.112.x, where x is a two-digit number - 68, 80, 85, 90, 95, and 75 all worked for the most part, but now it's totally blocked)
E-Messenger (http://www.e-messenger.net) - I used to be able to get on inputting different cities (when you open e-mess, it gives you a server with a city), but I can't find any more cities that work or aren't blocked.

The one I've been using is IMUnitive (https://www.imunitive.com), which is by far the worst, but it's better than nothing. Even so, I'm looking for something better.

What I'm looking for is a webmessenger that can use Yahoo! Instant Messenger (YIM). I'm not interested in anything else, save perhaps gtalk.

Furthermore, they've (obviously) blocked all of the webmessengers that the actual companies have (read: AIM Express (http://aim.com), MSN Webmessenger (http://webmessenger.msn.com), Yahoo Webmessenger (http://messenger.yahoo.com), and the gtalk in Gmail (http://mail.google.com).

So yeah - any and all help is appreciated greatly.

[Zak]

Why not just wait till you get home to IM? You at a boarding school or something? Your profile says you're 16.

[mr_pikachu]

If you can't wait until you get home for whatever reason, I use Trillian when I chat. Although I kind of expect that would likely have been banned as well, especially since it can use five different IM types (including YIM).

[Larissa]

*sigh*

I have a school-issued computer, so I literally have a computer with internet access all day long. As far as waiting until I get home, I can't talk to some of my friends when I get home due to time zone issues. x_x;

And Trillian is a downloadable program. o_O; I can't install any programs. Let's not mention the time I tried that and got in huge trouble.

*coughs* Okay, so I shouldn't be on messengers at all during school, but still. XD

[Sceptile_Master]

If you have a USB flash stick then gaim will be helpful to you. As it can be installed and ran from USB flash drives. It'll connect to MSN, AIM, ICQ and all those messengy programs. Good too.

[Silencer]

Just install a chat program onto a memory stick. At my school they blocked internet access (only IE though) so most of us have firefox installed onto our memory stick and just surf from there.

[mr_pikachu]

How stupid can school techies be? (Or more appropriately, how dumb do they think students are?) Do they not realize that people actually know there are other browsers besides IE? And have they forgotten the brilliance of tiny memory sticks? For that matter, why leave the computers plugged into the cable line (or DSL, T1, etc.) if the internet's banned? It almost sounds like whoever's "fixing" the "problem" doesn't really care if you use the internet as long as their paycheck comes in.

Anyway, hopefully the memory stick idea will help. As long as you can install the program to the memory stick when you're outside of school (or inside, if you're daring), that should work. Just make sure you have a backup stick if possible. That way, if you happen to "lose" the first one (i.e. someone confiscates it), you haven't lost everything.

Wow. Never thought I'd be helping someone evade rules. Must be the lack of sleep getting to me...

[Silencer]

How stupid can school techies be? (Or more appropriately, how dumb do they think students are?) Do they not realize that people actually know there are other browsers besides IE? And have they forgotten the brilliance of tiny memory sticks? For that matter, why leave the computers plugged into the cable line (or DSL, T1, etc.) if the internet's banned? It almost sounds like whoever's "fixing" the "problem" doesn't really care if you use the internet as long as their paycheck comes in.


Some classes require the internet. Sometimes we need to look up some information ourselves. That's why they leave the line connected. IE requires a teacher or a user with teacher rights to run a script so that students have internet access. So a bunch of our class just made the script themselves (modifying the original was impossible) without the check-up on user rights...