Re: [newbie] Alternative to ICQ?

2001-11-02 Thread Onur Kucuk
ICQ has been really messing up lately, or maybe its something to do with my firewall, either way what the list suggest for IM between this linux box and windows users. Something that is fairly secure and has decent features but easy for windows people to install. Actually there is an ICQ

Re: [newbie] Alternative to ICQ?

2001-11-02 Thread Paul
In reply to Onur Kucuk's words, written Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:06:15 +0200 I believe that these troubles will stay still, untill an icq client will act like icq 2000. Licq seems to be the best, so it will be developed fast, and will fix the troubles I believe. I use licq also. Tried

Re: [newbie] Alternative to ICQ?

2001-11-02 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
If you are looking for an alternative I use Yahoo. There is a really great basic native Linux client that comes from Yahoo themselves so it is really stable. On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Jon Doe wrote: ICQ has been really messing up lately, or maybe its something to do with my firewall, either way

Re: [newbie] Alternative to ICQ?

2001-11-02 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
No, sorry. I hope they get it going someday however. On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, David Reynolds wrote: On Friday 02 November 2001 08:23 am, you wrote: If you are looking for an alternative I use Yahoo. There is a really great basic native Linux client that comes from Yahoo themselves so it is

Re: [newbie] Alternative to ICQ?

2001-11-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
GnomeMeeting is supposed to be very good for videoconferencing. It can communicate with Netmeeting and connect to Netmeeting servers. On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:57:13 -0500 (EST), Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, sorry. I hope they get it going someday however. On Fri, 2 Nov

Re: [newbie] Alternative to ICQ?

2001-11-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Jabber is a great open source IM protocol. Gabber, a Jabber client, allows you to connect to he MSN, ICQ and Yahoo networks as well. It has some features that you won't find in the mainstream IM services, like encryption. There are Windows Jabber clients as well. Go to jabber.com and jabber.org