Re: [NTLK] Newton Instant Messaging

From: James Elliott (rootbeeraddict_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Mar 24 2002 - 17:35:09 EST


>On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Jesse Garnier wrote:
>
> > * NCQ 1.0b. This ICQ client by Pablo Resines was able to log on and receive
> > messages. Unfortunately, only two of the 50 or so test messages I sent were
> > received by the client on the other end, although the client was
>able to see
> > my Newton as logged in. (I tried with three different desktop ICQ clients,
> > with luck in only 1, Proteus for Mac OS X.)
>
>This is probably because ICQ has switched over to the "OSCAR" protocol,
>and is trying to get rid of all older clients by doing things like not
>having their messages go through, etc etc.

I take it that this is why Gerry's ICQ client no longer works?

-James

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