On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:31:45 -0500, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > I know recently that icq changes its protocol and breaking some ICQ client
Indeed. If I understand things correctly, ICQ now uses the "Oscar" protocol (see http://www.rendo.dekooi.nl/~jeff/oscar/introduction.html) which is what AOL Instant Messsenger uses as well. > I used GnomeICU and encounter a lot of problem like dropping message > silently. I had similiar problems with Gabber as well. I was using jabber.at's ICQ gateway and it suddenly stopped showing people online. I've now switched to the "aim-icq" gateway of jabber.sk (moving over / resubscribing all my ICQ contacts), and things are fine now. Ray -- Ziff Davis is so obviously biased to Microsoft in almost everything they publish, that they might as well change their company name to MS-PRAVDA. Darryl Householder commenting on extreme PC Week FUD (http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=21049&showcomments=flat)