On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Rob Weir wrote: > The thing to remember tho, is that this is AOLs fault; they keep > updating the protocol in (what seems to be) a non-backward compatible > fashion.
Gotta love flag-day updates... > Arggghhh, have you seen the recent version of Mirabilis ICQ? It's not > the licq ICQ98 days of yore; ICQ is now a shopping/mobile phone > calling/fax/video phoning monstrosity, with some legacy IM > capabilities remaining. Even the java ICQ mobile/express/whatever-it's-called-this-week is a bloated monstrosity. > Anyhow, as I said, the new version of licq seems to work flawlessly, > and the next release promises to fix any of the remaining protocol > bugs. Thank God. Everybody I know worth talking to is on ICQ or can be hit using talk...mostly on ICQ... -- Baloo