[Adium-devl] Adium 1.0 press release

[Henceforth Ribaldry]

On Jan 31, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> The Adium team is proud to announce the release of Adium 1.0, the  
> premier free, open source multiprotocol instant messaging client  
> for Mac OS X.  Adium 1.0 brings over 600 enhancements and bug  
> fixes, the culmination of over a year and a half of development.  
> New features include a shiny new default appearance, an  
> installation setup assistant, improved account management, privacy  
> management, iTunes Now Playing status, optional Dock-like hiding of  
> the contact list, grouping of saved status messages, a chat  
> transcript viewer with improved searching, and much more.  AIM file  
> transfer and Direct Connect image transfer improvements, Yahoo  
> invisible status, receiving of MSN custom emoticons, and Google  
> Talk buddy icons and typing indication support are a few other  
> notable additions.
>
> Adium 1.0 adds QQ messaging support to its repertoire of 13  
> services which include AIM, MSN, Google Talk, and Yahoo; it is  
> translated into 20 languages.  Adium is fast, lightweight, and  
> highly customizable. Adium 1.0 can be downloaded  immediately from  
> http://www.adiumx.com.
> ----
>
> Anything else?

IMHO, the last sentence of the first paragraph is too awkward.  I  
think it could be written more clearly to highlight that there are  
specific protocol improvements people will be interested in.  I would  
change it to:

> ...and much more.  Adium 1.0 also includes protocol improvements  
> such as AIM file transfer, Direct Connect and image transfers,  
> Yahoo invisible status, receiving of MSN custom emoticons, and  
> Google Talk buddy icons along with typing indication support.

This also moves the verb up front and nixes the double "and" at the  
end of the sentence.  My 2¢...

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