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Re: ICQ

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From: Darryl Bryant
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 00:00
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Taso Hatzi wrote:
> 
> Louis Hissink wrote:
> >
> > Anyone come across a fast useful version ?
> >
> 
> Why do people bother with ICQ?
> You can get one-on-one connections with plain old unix talk. Also,
> you DON'T have to give a bucket load of personal details to mirablis or
> whoever to sell to junk emailers.

I agree, but! most if not all my friends and people I talk to through icq
use windows 95/98/3.xx ect, and one Amiga user, sometimes when the icq
network is bogged down I don't use the chat mode just the messages, and I
like the way icq just lets you know someone has come online. 

cheers

dAz
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Date: 1999/01/03
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