RE: [Off Topic??] ICQ, DLL Wrapping, Euphoria, Eu2LCC
- Posted by Grape Vine <g__vine at hotmail.com> Jun 15, 2001
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Thomas Parslow (PatRat) wrote: > > Me and a friend are in a bit of a disagreement. He's insane about his > > ICQ list and database. He keeps coming up with more and more ideas for > > ways to save his list(and know what others in his house do with his > > icq). He has tried and tried to show them how to use there own icw > > number but his lilttle brothers are...Well there little brothers =) > > > > He thinks the best way to back up a list would be to get a shell and run > > > > a icq proxy that saves all msg's to/from your icq number, That is IF > > there was a way to make all transfers go via the proxy. I think the best > > > > way would be to wrap the dll's and save the msg's out like that(was my > > first idea for backing up) Tho his bro hides what he does(hence his > > paranoia with his list) in a few ways, one of wich is to brute force > > delete the <uin>.dat/<uin>.idx files. Being that there are > > <uin>.tmp.idx/.dat files that only cause's him to lose all his contacts > > and msg's, Tho thats the whole point is to keep them. As far as i know > > icq used to allow a "Send/recive all messages via the server" tho i > > never looked into it and never heard of it working for 100% of icq's msg > > > > functions. Anyone who has ideas/coments/flames post away(url with info > > would be great, then ~I~ dont have to be so involved =) > > > > > > Grape Vine > > 13728824 > > Hi, > > I'd suggest switching to Jabber, it's open source and it has server > side gateways to most other IM systems (ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, MSN). It > would be very easy to write a Jabber proxy, modify an existing > open-source client or write your own client (that's my current project > atm :). > > Also, Jabber is very good if you have firewall, it establishes a > single outgoing TCP connection to the Jabber server on port 5222. > > Have a look at: > www.jabber.org > www.jabbercentral.com > www.jabber.com > > Thomas Parslow (PatRat) ICQ #:26359483 > Rat Software > http://www.rat-software.com/ > Please leave quoted text in place when replying > > He loves ICQ, no chance there. Me, I perfer IRC, i only use ICQ for a few friends and people from the Euphoria list. Grape Vine 13728824