Erase iChat chatroom history

Trying to delete chat room history. Cannot find the .plist for ichat in library. Saw an earlier post which mentioned Leopord, wondering if it is the same for Snow Leopard? thought about deleting the whole application, but iChat is not available to download as a free standing app it seems.. help!!

Go to your hard drive/users/(your account)/Library/Preferences and delete com.apple.ichat.plist.
Restart iChat.

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Hi,
SO it has a Web Page link.
If you mouse over this link what does the tooltip or the info about where the page leads say (Wherever that appears in your Browser).
If it is in the form that will open or start a Chat in a client app it will look like this:-
<a href="aim:goim?screenname=ralphjohnsr&message=Hi+!,+I+came+from+your+websit e,+ralphjohnsuk.">
That is the a href="aim:goim will laumch an app that can do AIM chats.
The ?screenname in this case will call a specific buddy (And you can work out that the rest adds a Message when they use it)
The Tooltip or the part where you browser states what the links says, if it is a web link, and the chat is a web page type will list a standard http://URLaddress.
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Or is it saying that you just access the Chatroom ? (It is happening before you are re-entering the room ?)
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Apple did not erase iChat.
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The plus bit is the fact you can iMessage iOS devices.
All the other features that were in iChat are still there.
If you upgraded Lion to get to Mountain Lion then in System Preferences > Mail, Contacts and Calendars you probably list all the iChat Accounts (Screen Names and IDs).
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To the best of my knowledge, this is not possible.
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How do you erase your posting history along with your account?

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considering I've asked dumb questions in many forums here.. it sure
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>But by "stupid", I meant "inexperienced sounding", which can reflect on one's image in a negative way, if one is not careful. It's hard enough already in the job market with all this technology, and some of it getting tossed around as though it meant everything about being a designer.. it doesn't mean everything.
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