On Tuesday 05 November 2002 09:15 am, Ben Reser wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 07:35:51AM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> >  * ICQ/IRC/AIM/MSN settings -> EveryBuddy

> everybuddy already has an import feature to import ICQ99 contact lists.

Yes. The trick is getting this to happen during the install, without any 
special user knowledge, and particularly if you are *replacing* Windows on 
this machine.

> AIM, MSN and Yahoo stores buddies on the server so it's not a big deal.
> IRC would be difficult to do since there are so many different
> IRC clients and the scripts used in them are so different.

There are a few very common ones like mIRC that Mandrake could cater for - at 
least dredge out the bookmark-equivalents (servers, channels, nicks) and nail 
them into a Linux client or several.

Cheers; Leon


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