Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> Does anyone out there use ICQ under Debian? So far I've tried licq and
> gaim with the ICQ plugin, and both of them have very annoying problems
> (messages get lost, or messages from previous sessions get delivered
> again on client startup... this is a problem when you have 20+
> messages that come in everytime you start your ICQ client).
This is not a bug with licq, this is a problem with AOL. AOL is
attempting to kill ICQ off by making it as unreliable as possible.
Annoy AOL if this bothers you.
> Suggestions would be very welcome at this point. Unfortunately, the
> suggestion to drop ICQ for another IM is not feasible, due to the
> infamous Circumstances Beyond My Control (tm).
That and most other IMs suck more...
--
Baloo
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