On Monday 08 August 2005 21:47, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > I did run upon a little program called "Private ICQ Server". It is for > Windows, but it doesn't seem like something that Wine will have too much > of a trouble running. The real problems with this program are: > 1. I got it from a Russian speaking site. I think it's warez. > 2. The ICQ site bears no mention of said program. > > It seems that the only way to obtain this program is illegally, which is > something I will not do.
ICQ Private server is a workgroup solution from Mirabilis which was distributed by them about half a year before they were picked up by AOL. IIRC it speaks one of the older ICQ lingo (v4 or v5) and was one of the things that was scraped when ICQ moved to OSCAR (maybe because an OSCAR speaking ICQ server can run AIM clients?). Its not supported, of course, but I don't think its illegal to use it - ICQ was letting everyone download it for free from their site at the time. It also probably has a click-through EULA which you can peruse. All that being said - I also suggest you go with Jabber. As Tzafrir said - its possible to set it up so that clients can communicate only on the local server. Using the right software (I think ejabberd does this) you can also set it up so that the server allows only certain users to communicate to the outside world using server-to-server (which can basically be as secure as you like). You can also buy a commercial server implementation with full commercial support from jabber.com ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
