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Taso Hatzi <taso@esands.com> 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.

Yes, True.

But (sadly) not everyone's ISP allows unix shell access (or even runs unix), 
not everyone online knows how to use text-mode talk (not to mention anything
non point-and-clicky like 'bash' or 'telnet'), plus programs such as ICQ 
allow me to find the online/offline status of any one of my friends at any 
instant regardless of where they are logged in. 

I suppose I could emulate the status function of ICQ by running 'finger' 
through a heap of shell scripts every few minutes - but why bother?


Just for interest, I use the text-mode linux clone of ICQ called 'micq'.

Cya.
Gavin.
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