Are you guys looking for a solution or just trying to get your hands dirty at programming and protocols. If you are looking for a solution to chat with each other then why don't you take the IRC route + IM (i.e. notify using IM and move over to IRC). BTW does anybody know how to turn on the UNICODE features in Linux ? Is there any distributions solely based on UNICODE ? TIA -swaps "Shanker R Swaminathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The idea is a good one . However, there is a caveat . The problem is that > Neither AOL nor Microsoft have as yet made out their protocols > explicitly.The IETF draft has a lot of should's but no specific details. I > think AOL took over ICQ fairly recently so interoperability could become a > pipe dream . Blast these idiots!:-). > What Indro and I thought about was a ve r r y simple chat type client, > where the clients are connected via IP Address like ICQ .An Instant > Messenger would then be a single user chat system ,which is just what it is > in many cases. <snip> ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
