hey most of u ppl might be using yahoo messenger ......... and might be feed up of errors that come up but still yahoo is not so bad . simple solution is to have many messenger ready on ur pc just in case .


the various messengers that i know are as follows :

1. Yahoo ------ www.yahoo.co.in
   
2. MSN ------ www.msn.co.in
   
3. Gtalk ------ www.google.com/talk/
   
4. Skype ------ www.skype.com
   
5. Rediff Bol------ www.rediff.com
   
6. ICQ ------ www.icq.com
   
7. AIM ------ www.aim.com
   
8. AOL ------ www.aol.in
   
9. Trillian ------ www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/

but avoid using all of them at once as it will degrade performance and reduce your bandwidth .
I use the first 5 of them .........