Davey Brain wrote:

>Hi,
>I have an extreme need to use my ICQ to communicate with AOL people in 
>the next week as I relocate to another city far away. My  contact only 
>uses AOL IM on his PDA/Cell phone so email is not an option. The new Mr. 
>Message worked fine until I added an AOL buddy then it crashes everytime 
>I start a session. After 5 attempts and 15 minutes it is still saying 
>that AOL won't let me log on because I tried too many times (because it 
>crashed & crashed & crashed & crashed & crashed). Now
my old versioon of 
>Mr. Message and my  text ICQ client YSM (who knows if it works with 
>AIM?) won't start either because you are only allowed to log in 5 times 
>(??) then have to wait who knows how long to log in? I never had this 
>problem when ICQ wasn't AOL crap!
>
>I'm losing patience here, I need to get hold of my contact 
>drastically!!! Is anyone else having major problems with this and is 
>there a solution? Has anyone else noticed how crappy ICQ got after AOL 
>bought it and changed the format breaking everything like the java 
>client? Is anyone in the world working on porting a working cross-IM 
>client like GAIM to OS/2 or do I have to switch to my Linux computer to 
>use instant messaging that works? I'm not a good programmer or I'd 
>attempt it myself...
>
>TIA for any advice, pointers or commiserations,
>
>WarpDavey
>  
>
Have you tried the MrMessage released Monday?
Another option is at www.zionsoftware.com, it requires java14 and can be 
used with either java webstart or there is a downloadable/installable 
version.
Andy

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