On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 08:19:38PM +0000, Ross Burton wrote: | Apologies for the quoting style, I'm stuck in Outlook at the moment... | | jabber.com run a status page on support.jabber.com. | | AIM: AOL have explicity blocked all clients except their own most recent. | This way the get to advertise in your client.
This is not entirely true - I use Everybuddy daily and have no problems. I use it almost exclusively for AIM because that's what most of my friends use. The only real problem I have with it (and I don't know who's fault it is) is if I unplug the network from this laptop, I have to restart EB to be able to talk on AIM. ICQ returns almost immediately. (It may be that the AIM servers are just slow to provide updates, I don't know). | ICQ: There appears to be issues when connecting to the ICQ servers. The | status page for ICQ (http://support.jabber.com/public-server/icqstatus.html) | is very diplomatic (see the AOL page for the non-diplomatic approach) which | indicates that this is an issue which should be resolved. I sure hope so. Everybuddy supports ICQ too, and I used to use it with it with no problems. I don't use it with ICQ now because all my friends have AIM (or have both, but I have it default to AIM for them). Sometimes the ICQ is flaky, but overall not bad. If the system can't connect to the server (for some reasons, usually reports "server told us to go away") it can crash, but simply not signing on to ICQ will fix that :-). I actually haven't had it crash in a long time. EB also supports MSN, Yahoo, and Jabber, but I don't know how well because I don't use any of them. File transfer isn't very well supported -- only between EB clients. The last time a friend on AIM sent me a file, it hung nicely :-). He emailed it instead. HTH, -D
