hi i have to send the same message to about 200 people (~ half of my contact list). since i can remember that the feature "send to multiple recipients" doesn't work properly (or at least did never work when i tried it) i tried another way. i thought writing a shell script that reads the UINs and nicknames from a file and sending the message to my contacts will do it:
--- while read ICQ_UIN do echo message $ICQ_UIN '"test message"' > /home/test/.licq/licq_fifo done </etc/usrscripts/icq/icq_uins --- but that didn't work, or only half: first i got a error message "broken pipe" and licq crashed. it seemed that the message had been sent to about 20 people (though i can't tell, i have the message in my history, but some people told me, that they didn' receive anything. then i though maybe i'm sending it too fast which is very likely, so i put a "sleep 2" into the script. now licq didn't crash, but it didn't last very long and the icq-server kicked me, i went offline. it sent about 5-10 messages, or at least i have the message in the history of those contacts... is there anything i could do to send this message? thx!! JG
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