The "AIM Critical Fail" alternate contact list

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

AIM is a whore. AIM is a crackwhore with syphilis who sucks, doesn't swallow, then overcharges you for "services" rendered. We seem to have a backroom crackTHREAD thingy going for people who can't access chat, but I propose a list of alternate contact info everyone can post to right here and be sure it's all up-to-date, since the Milliways contact info thingy is not necessarily reliable. Firstly...

Sites that provide messenging services:
AIM main site
AIM Express, which can be run without downloading AIM
Yahoo messenger
MSN messenger
Google Talk messenger
Gmail, which has a messenger feature you just use from your main E-Mail page.
Chatspike, for java-based IRC access without downloading an IRC client
Trillian, which will connect to multiple existing AIM/other messenger accounts.
Meebo, which does the same thing as Trillian but without having to download anything. In my experience, it's much easier to use.

If I left anything out, tell me in comments and I'll stick it on here.

For people who use AIM as their main messenger, like I do, my current experience is this:
1. If AIM will not connect to one screen name, it may connect to another, so try creating a second screen name.
2. Meebo is the best alternate connection route for AIM names. It looks and functions just like AIM does and keeps your IM windows in one single internet window.
3. If you can't connect to any of your AIM handles, creating a Gmail account is a quick, easy way to set up a non-AIM-based instant messenger alternative.

And now...


Mun Contact Info Form:

Mun name:
Characters:
Plots/Groups you have pups involved with: [Both current plots and groups such as Security, medical pups, Delicate Flowers, etc.]

Instant Messenger Screennames:
[Name of messenger] - [screenname(s)]

Primary E-Mail:
Gmail:
Any other contact info: (such as links to journal posts people can reply to that will give you a comment notification if you'd rather not give out your other contact info publically, or misc. other forums and sites with PM options you can be reached through)
How you refer to be contacted:

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For this post, please limit replies ONLY to contact info forms. Keeping threading to a minimum will prevent contact forms from being hidden behind uberthread links so people can find mun/character names using ctrl+F. :)

Comments

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

Mun name: Ven
Characters: Miniver Cheevy, Sheogorath, Much, Harry Potter, Therem Harth rem ir Estraven, Sorve Harth rem ir Estraven, the fox, Faramir
Plots/Groups you have pups involved with: Life Support

Instant Messenger Screennames:
AIM - Ven badger, htarogoehS, SonOfWormWeaver

Primary E-Mail: eigrefeht @ gmail.com
Gmail: eigrefeht, friarsghost
Any other contact info: Mun can be PMed as Mythopoeia (http://www.gaiaonline.com/profiles/10195280) on Gaia
How you refer to be contacted: If I can get any of my AIM handles signed on, I prefer to be pinged over AIM. If I'm not signed on, E-Mailing eigrefeht is a reliable alternative. If you have a Gaia account, I'm actually on there more than E-Mail, so that works too.

[ceitfianna]

Mun name: Kate
Characters: Will Scarlett
Plots/Groups you have pups involved with: Shogun Plot, think that's all for now

Instant Messenger Screennames:
AIM - FionaLl8 and scarlettmun

Primary E-Mail: bardlark@hotmail.com
Any other contact info: I have an account on yahoo messenger and msn but never log onto them, so email or aim is best.
How you refer to be contacted: I try to be on aim when I'm online with either name depending how much its being a problem.

Steph Mu Ji

[muji]

Great idea -- I would add though that the crackthreads inna backroom that have been from me lately are because I'm at work with just enough computer access to be online but can't thread. (Also, no AIM etc.)

Mun Name: Steph Mu Ji
Characters: Mal Reynolds, Sallie Reynolds, Ned the Piemaker, SARAH
Plots: Eureka things, otherwise minimal.
AIM: stephmuji
Primary Email: milliways.mal@gmail
Contact Preference: Gmail is usually the most reliable for me.

[sdelmonte]

Mun Name: Alex W.
Characters: Alex Knox, Gibbs, Captain Kirk, Dean O'Dell
Plots: None at present
AIM: sdelmonte
Primary Email: sdelmonte@aol.com
Contact Preference: e-mail is best, since I am not on AIM most of the day, but feel free to ping if you see me.

[rowanberries.livejournal.com]

Mun name: Amy
Characters: Havelock Vetinari, Shelley Winters, Harth Fray, Captain Jack Harkness, Ducky, Nico Minoru
Plots/Groups you have pups involved with: Delicate Flowers, Torchwood plots, Runaways, any and all Pantomime plots. :D

Instant Messenger Screennames:
AIM - amyberries
MSN - amyberries [at] hotmail [dot] com
Yahoo! Messenger - shelleymun (practically never used)

Primary E-Mail: rowanberries [at] gmail [dot] com
Gmail: Ditto.
Any other contact info:
How you prefer to be contacted: Email or AIM. :)

[the-h-star-r.livejournal.com]

Mun name: Aura
Characters: Mia Ausa, Homestar Runner, Farley Flavors
Plots/Groups you have pups involved with: Axel's Heart

Instant Messenger Screennames: AIM - auradagamer

Primary E-Mail: auralie @ gmail.com
Gmail: Same
How you prefer to be contacted: Either way is fine.

[canadabear.livejournal.com]

Mun name: Steph
Characters: Clark Kent, Melou, Sikozu, Jimmy Bond, Maya Herrera, Fuchsia Groan
Plots/Groups you have pups involved with: Security

Instant Messenger Screennames:
AIM - Cywyll
MSN - polar167 at hotmail dot com
Yahoo - canada_bear at rogers dot com

Primary E-Mail: polar167 at hotmail dot com
Gmail: n/a HAH
Any other contact info: You can comment to a post in my lj (the one used for this comment) and I have an OOC communication post linked in Clark's userinfo (http://hero-farmboy.livejournal.com/profile), which is mostly for Clark OOC stuff, but can be used for other pups if you really want to.
How you prefer to be contacted: AIM is really best. Other than that, e-mail or comment to my journal. I don't really pay much attention to MSN or Yahoo.

[whisper2ascream.livejournal.com]

Mun name: Di
Characters: Kate Bishop, Nathan Petrelli, Draco Malfoy, Richard Langly, John Smith, Truman Burbank, (Rupert Giles, Peter Venkman, both close to retire/plot only)
Plots/Groups you have pups involved with: Kate's in Shogun, Draco's in a Lunar OOM slow with Mia. John's been getting involved with Black Oil, maybe Stone Angels, Langly and the other LG are to possibly have a upcoming plot as well Nobody are staff at the moment, though Kate would likely be interested in Security placements if there's future openings.

Instant Messenger Screennames: whspr2ascrm13, whisper2ascream13 @ yahoo.com (without spaces on latter)
[Name of messenger] - [screenname(s)] AIM, Trillian (I also just installed Gizmo/LJ Talk as well)

Primary E-Mail: see second AIM SN
Gmail: debutler13@gmail.com
Any other contact info: used to use Yahoo IM, but that was years ago. Usually don't bother now.
How you refer to be contacted: AIM or email

[guppy_sandhu]

Mun name: Charlotte (also respond to Char, Chars, Wedic, Oi You etc)
Characters: Guppy Sandhu (medic), Toby de Silva (medic (limited ability)), Wellington Womble, John Steed, Johnny Private, Shufti (security) and Jack Manackle-Johnson and Snowball
Plots/Groups you have pups involved with: Plots - none with names. Groups - Medical (see above), Security (see above)

Instant Messenger Screennames:
AOL - guppymun
thewedic or aimlesswedic if the above isn't working

Primary E-Mail: charlotte.aldworth@gmail.com
Gmail: As above
Any other contact info: my LJ is bigfluffball
How you prefer to be contacted: Any of the above.

[lightningsqueen.livejournal.com]

Mun name: Mandi
Characters: Alice Abernathy-Summers, Jean Grey, Kira Ford, Jessica Moore, Abigail Whistler, Ben/X5-493, Richard B. Riddick, Julian Luna
Plots/Groups you have pups involved with: Alice is involved with Kaplan's whole Hive plot. Otherwise there isn't a plot for the others.
Instant Messenger Screennames:
AIM: DmnsAngl
Y!M: valients_fairyqueen
MSN: blackat009@gmail.com

Primary E-Mail: tatyana.steele@gmail.com
Any other contact info: Through this journal here. (Though this journal is Flocked)
How you refer to be contacted: Through AIM or Y!M. I use those two messengers the most.

[ostro_goth]

Mun name: Maru
Characters: Teja, Tower, Asar-Suti
Plots/Groups you have pups involved with: 'Suti runs the magic library, and the gardening; Teja works in the forge -- but neither are really groups or plots. But they might be wanted for that.

Instant Messenger Screennames:
AIM - sootymun
Y!M - sethos_3500
gtalk - yakalskovich@gmail.com

Gmail: yakalskovich@gmail.com


How you prefer to be contacted: I'm always on gtalk when I'm online, even when I'm at work. If anything's really urgent, then you can ping me there; but I can definitely not thread from work, and might not like blather then. I have status messages, but they might be out of date. When I'm at home and ready to play, I'll be on Trillian, that is, AIM and Y!M. You can always safely ping me there and assume that I will be ready to talk, thread, plot etc.

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[missginnytonic.livejournal.com]

Mun name: Alicia or Squeaky
Characters: Ginny Weasley, And Ryan Wolfe.
Plots/Groups you have pups involved with: None.

Instant Messenger Screennames:
AIM:-- Squeaky4684, Duckie4684
Y!M:-- Baby_duck484 (mostly invisible but almost always on)
Primary E-Mail: Babyduckie484 @ gmail.com
Gmail:babyduckie484

Any other contact info: I have notifications turned on to the private messages on LJ,

How you refer to be contacted: Email or AIM. I check my email or try to every day.

[thebattycakes]

Mun name: Batty
Characters:
Bill Pardy, Wolverine, Billy the Kid, Hellboy, Puss in Boots, the Tick, Frank Perconte, Daredevil, Goliath

Plots/Groups you have pups involved with:
Frank Perconte is in a Stone Angels thing with Band of Brothers and Band of Brothers thing, Wolverine is working through X-men Extinction, Billy the Kid has been moving through canon and Bill is planning on going to the Suzi's Winter party thingy.

Instant Messenger Screennames:
AIM: adamantiumbat
YIM: adamantium_batarang

Primary E-Mail:
adamantium_batarang@yahoo.com

Any other contact info: I don't have any. If you email me and need one I can set it up somewhere.

How you refer to be contacted:
AIM is best when I have access to it. But at times when I don't, like right now, email is good. I am never on YIM but if you send me an email and ask I can log on, even now.

[knights-say-nih.livejournal.com]

Mun name: Steph
Characters: Random of Amber, Darren Nichols, Santi, Jack Frost, Dworkin, Telemain
Plots/Groups: Um, pretty much nothing.

Instant Messenger Screennames:
AIM: UndrwO

Primary E-Mail: underwater.owl @ gmail.com
Any other contact info: 's about it.
How you refer to be contacted: Either AIM or gmail.

[the_croupier]

Mun name: Rick

Characters: Dr. Malcolm Crowe; Agents K and Zed; Toby Ziegler; Angel and Wesley Wyndham-Pryce; Danny Ocean; Rick Deckard

Plots/Groups you have pups involved with: Malcolm is on the medical staff, both as a psychiatrist and a physician (nothing like surgery, but he's handled emergencies and even delivered babies). I also have more Plot involving his Milli-ancestor, Catherine Crowe, which I'm planning for sometime this winter.

The Men in Black are still caught up in the Black Oil Plot which has been going on for nearly two years now, and will soon be heating up again. There will also soon be a Rollerball tournament for any insane Milliways pup who wants to take part. And there are always a couple minor subplots going on too.

Angel and Wesley are in a holding pattern until Illyria can return to the game (her mun has very good RL reasons for being away), when there will be Plot, Plot, Plot!

Danny Ocean is on hold until a future casino Plot happens. But Rick Deckard will be coming in later this month, and I'll eventually have him try out for Security.

AIM Screenname: CroupierRick

Mun LJ: the_croupier

How you refer to be contacted: Feel free to ping me if you see me on AIM. My away messages are usually accurate, so if I say I'm pingable, I really am, though I might not respond right away.

Milliways muns are welcome to friend my mun LJ.

[ladyiapetus]

Mun name: Kim/Iap
Characters: Tim Speedle, John Munch, Rennes, Malu, Smellerbee, Dani Phantom, Molly Walker, Lily Potter II.
Plots/Groups you have pups involved with: Technically Malu is still a part of the gardening staff.

Dani's still best buds with Enzo, and plans on attending Bob and Dot's wedding in the future.

Speedle is on hold for the moment, mainly because I'm still pissed at TPTB for the rotten way his character "returned" this season. Hallucination FTL!

Molly I'm considering handwaving the last couple episodes of season 1 and just jumping her into post-HTSAEM/pre-Four Months Later territory. There will probably be future OOMs entailed with the latter.

Everyone else has no plots.

Instant Messenger Screennames:
AIM - given out by request only.

Primary E-Mail: kgyorkos@gmail.com
Gmail: See above.
How you refer to be contacted: E-mail is the best route, especially if you want to chat with me over AIM. My mun LJ is by and large public (there are a few friends-only entries), and people are welcome to comment on any entry that's currently on my front page; I've got comment notification turned on. For both methods, if I don't reply right away then I'm probably at work.

[viralmemory.livejournal.com]

Mun name: Fenny
Characters: Ryoko Hakubi, Washuu Hakubi, Lucy Diamond, Crow T Robot, Sadi the Eunuch
Plots/Groups you have pups involved with: Shogun plot, and one sideplot-which-has-no-name.

Instant Messenger Screennames:
AIM - cultleaderfenny, girlswithgear
Yahoo! - cj_jones_42

Primary E-Mail: cj_jones_42@yahoo.com
Gmail: cjjones42@gmail.com
Any other contact info: primary journal is viralmemory.
How you prefer to be contacted: any of the above, really. I'm latched to the laptop an awful lot of my day, so it's all good.