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On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 04:55  AM, Alex Fuller wrote:

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> Although I have been able to enter a nickname in my ICQ account box, I 
> show
> up in my accounts list etc as the account UIN. The preference for 
> Buddies to
> appear as aliases only is checked, but doesn't seem to apply to me.
>

Yeah - nicks are only sent to the server, they aren't used for anything 
else.

You should set your name to be whatever you want to see in the Profile 
preferences.

> Also, while ICQ and MSN (the two services I use) do now download buddy 
> lists
> from the server, it seems that each buddy has to be online at least 
> once to
> be noticed - until then they don't even show up in the offline buddies 
> group
> - is that correct?
>

Yeah - I've noticed that as well.


> Also it doesn't seem to pick up MSN nicknames from the server - I have
> everyone listed by email address.

Nope - not yet.

Eric

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