On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Does anyone out there use ICQ under Debian? So far I've tried licq and > gaim with the ICQ plugin, and both of them have very annoying problems > (messages get lost, or messages from previous sessions get delivered > again on client startup... this is a problem when you have 20+ > messages that come in everytime you start your ICQ client).
This is not a bug with licq, this is a problem with AOL. AOL is attempting to kill ICQ off by making it as unreliable as possible. Annoy AOL if this bothers you. > Suggestions would be very welcome at this point. Unfortunately, the > suggestion to drop ICQ for another IM is not feasible, due to the > infamous Circumstances Beyond My Control (tm). That and most other IMs suck more... -- Baloo