I did it mostly just for fun, to see if it could be done. i realize that a great many people can get to any place on the internet that they wish, but there are also some people in offices and computer labs that have access to the AIM service blocked or monitored in some way. i know that ICQ does the message queue thing, but as far as i know, AIM does not have that feature yet... so i figured it'd be neat to try and implement it. it's not reinventing the wheel since AIM users cannot (to my knowlege) communicate with the ICQ network and thus take advantage of the ICQ message queue system.

of course, if people started using jabber, most of those things would be solved, but for the time being, i wanted to play with the Net::AIM modules ;)

the code is sloppy as hell now, becuase i hacked it up real quick to see if it would work... i'll get to cleaning it up and adding more features (like notifying you when buddies sign in/out) and feature to list current online buddies along with the queue system. i'll post code updates when i modify things.