Um, thanks, but I wasn't really asking for any help. The only reason I use
icq is because I use it to keep up with about 5 of my close friends, who
all have it too. Micq does what I need it to do. (only messages really) And
yes I know all about IRC, finger, rwho, DNS, and LDAP. (most of those
wouldn't work because my friends are all windoze-centric and don't know
anything about Unix... all except one, I believe. And he's just learning.)
So I really don't see why you said all that about those things when all I
was doing was mentioning another good icq-clone for linux. Thanks for the
not-needed-help but you went a bit overboard. :)
-James
>Date: 01 Jul 1998 23:02:34 +0200
>From: MC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version!
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>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Curbo) writes:
>
>> If you want a good console based one, go to freshmeat.net and look
>> up micq. It is fast and reliable, and supports a lot of the
>> commands. Only problem is the icq server kicks me off every once in
>> a while.. I think it's a bug in the protocol part of the program.
>
>This is not a surprise, since the protocol has been reverse engineered
>by the people writing free ICQ clients. Apparently, Mirabilis won't
>publish the protocol. As far as I can tell, the protocol sucks. It
>seems to be one of the hairest examples of a security hole gone wild
>I've ever seen!
>
>I suggest you look up other alternatives to ICQ. What do you want to
>do? Chat with a lot of people? How about old Internet Relay Chat?
>There's plenty of free clients with source code available. Better yet,
>there's protocol specifications available; it's a published, open,
>protocol.
>
>If you want to keep track of people, learn how to use distributed
>finger and rwho. Set things up so people can easily find the
>information. One thing that is good is to have a CNAME for your
>domain, like this:
>
> deparment.foobar.edu => mailserver.department.foobar.edu
>
>This way, external users can finger what they think is a mail
>address, like this:
>
> $ finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>and get a fuzzy match for drbarson back.
>
>Also, check out the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP),
>originally a frontend for the ITU X.500 address directory
>standard. This looks like it's got a great potential...
>
>Mikael "MC" Cardell, siGNUm, Inc.
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>We fight for free software!
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