From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 15 6:46:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA6137B422 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 06:46:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA09891 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:46:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA18178 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:43:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id G0XKWY00.FIS; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:46:10 -0400 Message-ID: <39C2282A.2B099A84@mitre.org> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:46:18 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: geoff@aims.com.au Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using ICQ.. References: <000b01c01ec5$1878e2a0$020aa8c0@aims.private> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Geoff Cooper wrote: > > I can see that there are various ICQ programs available in the ports tree, > and I've used a few. Could anyone suggest which is better, and why? > GnomeICU doesn't seem to send half the messages (even though it says it > does), > and ICQNIX likes to crash. I use licq, and it is pretty good. The previous version (0.82) had a much nicer interface than the current version (0.85), but that is all IMHO. Also, when you are talking directly to other licq clients, licq will encrypt your traffic (something the Windows ICQ client cannot do). licq isn't the most stable program in the world, I've still managed to crash it a couple of times, but it is one of the most stable ICQ clients, and one of the most fully featured. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message