After using MSN messenger for a week or two, I have to say that I'm not at all impressed.  It offers far less control over your contact list than ICQ - with MSN you can't make yourself invisible to a single user without blocking their messages and you can't choose to make yourself visible to a select few users when you're in invisible mode.  You can't even send a message to a user who's offline!  I cannot fathom why someone would willingly switch to MSN from ICQ. I will therefore be switching back to Trillian posthaste.  The only reason I'm even keeping my MSN account active is because everyone I want to talk to is using MSN, but I'd like to be perfectly clear that this is under protest.