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Re: ICQ under Linux



   The extensions might be a little coarse, and slightly buggy from time to 
time, but I experienced little trouble using the ICQ transport. Besides,
it's a cool IM system for itself. What gabber version do you have? 
Note that I said, "Or if you really wanna go wild" and not "For a conservative
choice"

	Regards, Yotam Rubin

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 11:52:25AM +0300, Ely Levy wrote:
> I must strongly disagree with you on that one,
> out of experiance of running both gabber and jabber here I can tell you
> the gabber client is highly unstable when it come to extentions
> not mention the server is badly written crash from time to time 
> and have memory leaks.
> 
> I couldn't make the icq extension work at all, and the AIM one need
> a very very specific version of AIM which need to be installed using wine
> I would recommand as ilya said to use gaim which has plugins to support
> everything from jabber icq to napster
> 
> Ely Levy
> System group
> Hebrew University 
> Jerusalem Israel
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote:
> 
> >    Or if you really wanna go wild, you should give jabber a shot. In addition
> > to its native messaging protocol, it sports AIM, MSN Instant messenger,
> > Yahoo's messenger, and many other procotols. gabber is a decent client
> > for jabber.
> > 
> > 	Regards, Yotam Rubin
> > 
> > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 07:17:29PM +0300, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:47:17PM -0400, Alex wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 22 July 2001 10:33, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > > > > The new one actially uses another protocol (AIM's protocol, I believe). It
> > > > > is not exactly an ICQ server. But I believe that he licq lists (and their
> > > > > archive) will be a better source in this case.
> > > > I've tried to supply to LICQ thename as you've given it,  and not its 
> > > > various aliases - like icq.mirabilis.com,and it WORKS. Thank you very much. 
> > > > I'll try to be helpful in my turn - if it ever comes to that.
> > >
> > > If you need to login to the ICQ2000 server for Linux, try GAIM. Simply
> > > set the server to "login.icq.com" and use yourICQ UIN as the "Screen
> > > Name".
> > >
> > > (ICQ2000 servers and clients use OSCAR, the same protocol which AOL
> > > Instant Messenger uses)
> > >
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