RE: [Off Topic??] ICQ, DLL Wrapping, Euphoria, Eu2LCC

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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

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