Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?
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
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