> > 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.
That's interesting, and maybe explains some of the bizarre behavior shown by my Trillian client. I have seen ICQ itself fail to deliver messages for a long time, but only Trillian "eats" my messages to other people (actually one in particular) and it's annoying as hell. Unfortunately Trillian hasn't been ported to Linux, but I sure hope it does. There's a poll question on their website of "wish-list items" and that's one of them. The Win32 0.71 version is great, and if it were moved over, it would probably fit the bill perfectly in this case. Maybe a few of us should goad them into making a Linux version? Jeff Bonner
