AIM Blast?!
 

I can't signon AIM now without getting sent some "AIM Blast group" invitation shit by some random name. WTF are they trying to do? AOL was littered with spam which could be considered one of the causes of their demise and now they want to create another spamming method? Who are these morons running things for them?

It reminds me of the people working at classmates.com that kept their boss from finding out about facebook existing while their site was failing.

use pidgin (pc) or adium (mac)

Meebo is another good one.

I use trillian, don't feel like moving onto the next new trend every few months and trillian has always gotten the job done.

Pidgin all the way.