Ichat was hiccuping when typing and i fixed it like this

turns out i had to many names in my ichat (ten years of aim/ichat) and everytime someone would log in or out and ichat would rearrange the names (normal behaviour) my typing in the chat window would hiccup or pause... was driving me nuts so... i created a new account with only the 10 or so people i actually talk to... in the process i learned that while i have BOTH buddy lists open on my desktop i can simply scroll down through the old list and drag over the people i want to add... made making a new list SO easy
just thought i would share this.

Hi,
As a note.
The AIM Buddy lists used to be limited to 200 Buddies before you could not add any more.
I have heard the Buddy list can now be 600 names but have never had my own list that high.
You can delete a Buddy in iChat by highlighting the name and using the Backspace Key and saying yes to the Confirm message.
Holding the Shift key and clicking two Buddies on the Buddy List will include all those i8n between.
Clicking on different Buddies whilst holding down the Apple Key will highlight only those Clicked on.
These two methods allow you delete buddies en masse if needed.
6:52 PM Friday; March 6, 2009

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