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Robert Atkins - 16 Dec 2003 00:11 GMT

All of a sudden, my iChat user has stopped working. I fire up iChat
and it tells me I'm on, but none of my logged-in friends can see me
and I can see none of them.

It's an "expired" .mac account (I've never been a .mac member, I
signed up via iChat ages ago and never used the account for anything
else). It used to work on Jaguar then it suddenly stopped working
about a month ago and now it continues to not work on Panther.

I got a very nice message from support@mac.com saying basically
"bugger off, we don't do email support". Any clues?

Cheers, Robert.

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Jason - 16 Dec 2003 18:11 GMT

> All of a sudden, my iChat user has stopped working. I fire up iChat
> and it tells me I'm on, but none of my logged-in friends can see me
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>
> Cheers, Robert.

Yeah, pay for .mac, or signup at www.aim.com for a free AIM ID.

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Steve Jay - 16 Dec 2003 21:49 GMT

Try creating a new trial account and see if that works, that will at
least tell you if it's your Mac or a problem with the account. If it's
the account, it's probably being fully "expired" (which would put a
lie to the claim that iChat remains usable ever after the .Mac trial
period runs out.)

> All of a sudden, my iChat user has stopped working. I fire up iChat
> and it tells me I'm on, but none of my logged-in friends can see me
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
>
> Cheers, Robert.

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Robert Atkins - 31 Dec 2003 05:18 GMT

> Try creating a new trial account and see if that works, that will at

In the end I gave up and created a new AIM account. Pain in the arse
though, I had to change my username.

Cheers, Robert.

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iChat user b0rken