[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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