Re: ICQ for Gnome

[famrom ran es (Guillermo S. Romero / unnamed / Familia Romero)]

>This is true
>but there is work done to remedy this
>I recall reading something about the Rendezvous Protocol which will provide
>interclient conversations to occur. I haven't done much looking into it,
but I'll
>try to pick up some URLs and drop them back here.

Rendezvous? I think that the thing M$ proposed to IETF (to kill ICQ?).
Please send all data avaliable. Specially the related to true openess.
I will search too.

>So far as I know, it's not complete yet.
>let's not forget that the reason to use ICQ (or any pager at all) is that it's
>ubiquitous.  We'll always say, "yes, there's a better way; let's go write
it" but
>ICQ is here, now, and used by a tonnage of people.

A free open system will be so. You can do IRC with any modern OSs or
implement you own client. You can not with ICQ (without breaking the
protocol, a illiegal thing in some countries). And now it is free (dunno if
you get spam), but who knows in the future?

>I'm not here to comment on the merits or pitfalls of ICQ: the application, the
>organization, or the protocol.   I'm not here to comment on the plusses and
>minuses of IRC as a medium of exchange... though i have a lot to say on
both ;-)

Freeness to choose, thats the only I want. The same freenes that allowed me
to choose Linux. And of course be able to stay free.

>What I do know is that I use the ICQ java client.  I also know that I wish
for a
>faster, more aesthetic client, and that was my kick in the pants to get
started.

So lets the code begin! (First I must improve my pathetic coding, oops ;] )

GSR