everybuddy & icq

[Tim Wunder]

On 2/12/2003 9:36 AM, someone claiming to be Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 February 2003 3:10 am, Ted Ozolins wrote:
> 
>>A lot of the students at the local highschool are giving linux a go.
>>Since all teens have more to say to each other than a normal day
>>permits time, they spend a lot of time chatting on msn, icq and what
>>have you. The chat program "everybuddy" works well on msn and aim but
>>nothing anyone types on icq gets to the other end. Licq on the other
>>hand works as it should. I've talked most of them through downloading
>>and compiling/installing  licq and for the most part they are pleased
>>with the result.  Does anyone happen to know why there is a problem
>>with "everybuddy" and icq?
> 
> 
> Never had much luck with 'everybuddy' and never used ICQ, but gain seems 
> to work for most everything...  have used it for msn, aim, and icq and 
> it worked fine.  You need to load the additional 'modules' in order for 
> it to talk to the other protocols...
> 
> 
> 

Hey, and what's a thread without a KDE 3 reference?
Kopete is supposed to do it all, though I'm not much of an IM guy and 
have never used it,
http://kopete.kde.org/index.php?page=index