On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 07:00, Magnus Stenemo wrote:
I have similar problems with GnomeICU. The problem is that AOL
(ICQ's owners) like to keep their protocols private and
closed-source. That means that any other project to create an ICQ
client must reverse-engineer the protocol -- a very difficult and
painstaking task. I know GnomeICU is fully compatible with all ICQ
versions up to 2000a. Of course, by the time the protocols for
this were worked out by the developers and the new version
released, AOL had released a new version of their official ICQ
client, 2000b. This is a little game AOL likes to play to annoy
other ICQ client developers, forever keeping them on the back
foot. I find that when I talk to users of 2000b, I can't have a
real-time chat, and I have to send all messages through the server
-- in other words I can't establish a direct connection, just like
your problem.
I have tried fiddling with firewall settings; this is not the
problem. The problem lies with AOL and their stranglehold on the
world instant messaging market.
But it worked before I installed tinyfirewall... (it can be
something else I installed, but I know that it has worked!
//Magnus
ICQ has not been working well with GNU/Linux reverse-engineered
clients for the past few weeks. I had very few problems until
recently. I reckon AOL changed something server-side -- they've been
known to do that every now and then. If that's the case then we'll
just have to wait for the GNU/Linux clients to catch up, and hope that
AOL don't change again...
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
