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Re: [offtopic]
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote about "Re: [offtopic]":
> KXICQ (version 2) supports ICQ v7 protocol while LICQ CVS (1.1.x) supports v8
> preliminary only - it sends icq though server MUCH better then the 1.0.x
> version and way faster! (and thanks to Ilya and others - hebrew support is
> great!)
>
> Nadav - it also solves your problem - trust me, I had exactly the same
> problem.
Thanks Hetz, and to the other people who recommended that I switch to a beta
version of licq.
Indeed the stable version of licq (1.0.3, the version also in the latest
distributions such as Redhat 7.2) is by now utterly unusable as it barely
ever manages to send messages, but the beta version works.
Switching to an unstable beta version (1.1.0) from licq.org (I had to compile
it myself) fixed all my problems, and ICQ works well now. It uses a different
protocol now, and needs different holes poked in the firewall than the old
protocol (this protocol uses TCP, to port 5190).
Of course, this version is _really_ unstable - send URL doesn't work (I
don't know why), and for some recepients LICQ just crashes when I try to
send them a message (I think it has something to do with Hebrew - I didn't
spend too much time on trying to understand it). But overall, it's much
better than the old version, and I have already been able to hold a 3 hour
conversation without it crashing (why anyone would want to spend 3 hours
typing when you can just pick up a phone is a different issue ;)).
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