On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:07:35PM +0530, Kingsly John wrote:
> Well.. for most people it only happens the first time... after which you
> know that you can't do that... so you won't use it until you grab the next
> snapshot! ;-)

I'd rather know in advance what I can't do, so it doesn't crash. :-)

>  |I gather that the UDP protocol has been completely stripped out of
>  |the newer version.  It would be useful to have one that supports
>  |both, selectable by the user.

> As long as you are using the UDP version to talk to the server it's going
> to gobble up all your messages.

I know this (but I *am* using the UDP version and I can live with it).

> They are *AOL* they can do just about anything they please and get away
> with it... but they still love to cry foul when a someone else does the
> same thing! ;-)

Incidentally, for curiosity's sake I just downloaded the latest and
greatest (ha!) Java ICQ from their web page and tried it out using
the java1.1 JRE installed on Solaris 8.

The "Enter your ICQ# and Password" box is still there about 45 minutes
after I pressed "OK", with the little icon still spinning.  Great
software, eh?  ;-)

imc

PS: unrelated stupid question: I have no real idea what UDP actually is,
but I'm given the impression that it just consists in sending packets
with no established connection [I guess I'm wrong about that because
netstat shows it as an established connection].  So if I'm configuring a
firewall then do I need to allow some incoming UDP ports as well as the
outgoing one?  Or does opening the outgoing port automatically allow the
incoming ones to get back?

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