ICQ?

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ICQ?

Postby Nokie » Fri Jun 23, 2006 6:59 pm

It occurred to me today after getting the 5th ICQ spam from some random spammer that I don't see anyone use ICQ anymore.

I looked through my contact list in trillian and the only contacts I have on ICQ are old Sojourn/Toril people.

Do any of you guys still use only ICQ, or do you also use AIM/MSN/Yahoo/Jabber?
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Postby Dalar » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:35 pm

You can use AIM to talk to people on ICQ these days. But yea, most people I know use those 3. Most of the asian people I know use AIM, offices use more Yahoo and MSN. www.meebo.com

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Postby Duna » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:53 pm

I use all 4 :P
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Postby Malia » Fri Jun 23, 2006 11:18 pm

I use skype mostly Nokie, but trillian (icq and aim) also
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Postby Lilira » Fri Jun 23, 2006 11:45 pm

Skype

Trillian to use AIM, ICQ and Yahoo.
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Postby Tanji Smanji » Sat Jun 24, 2006 12:14 am

Trillian here, so all in one. Workin on getting trillian on my treo too!
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Postby Vaprak » Sat Jun 24, 2006 12:46 am

I use trillian and skype both.
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Postby Ambar » Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:06 am

trillian.. family on aol (losers) friends on icq/msn/yahoo

can only imagine skype and zoning! i'd be so pissed most of the time :P you'd all forget im the *lady* of the group when i started yelling at player x or y for screwing up (i do this rl and arilin laughs)
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Postby Duna » Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:10 am

Ambar wrote:trillian.. family on aol (losers) friends on icq/msn/yahoo

can only imagine skype and zoning! i'd be so pissed most of the time :P you'd all forget im the *lady* of the group when i started yelling at player x or y for screwing up (i do this rl and arilin laughs)


Actually Ambar.. if they're in the call you can yell at them in person :) I've heard it done before.. it's quite funny...
oh.. the 4 i use.. I use yahoo on it's own and trillian for the other three as well as Skype :P
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Postby Ambar » Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:12 am

hehe thats why i cant use skype .. cant shatter the illusion!!

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Postby Gormal » Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:38 am

I hate all the useless spam I get from ICQ, but it seems to be the only way to contact some people (mostly old players from here). I use Trillian to connect to MSN, AIM, and ICQ as well as skype which I use mostly just for VOIP.
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Postby Lilira » Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:16 am

Ambar wrote:trillian.. family on aol (losers) friends on icq/msn/yahoo

can only imagine skype and zoning! i'd be so pissed most of the time :P you'd all forget im the *lady* of the group when i started yelling at player x or y for screwing up (i do this rl and arilin laughs)


What's even more fun is skyping with a friend also in the group, then you BOTH get to mutter and yell obsenities at the monitor at the idiotic thing player x just did.. or Dammit.. why doesn't he LISTEN!!!! *grin* Or.. curse yourself for doing something stupid.

Then you have the SO who is sitting next to you eavesdropping who tosses the odd comment in. *laugh*

The other fun thing is when the people on skype realize that YES.. you really ARE a female player. *wink*
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Postby Nilan » Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:30 am

I use ICQ but then i only have like 9 people on it.

I usually forget to open it

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Postby Sarell » Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:57 am

I use ICQ and Skype, usually open them both up together.
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Postby Nokie » Sat Jun 24, 2006 6:48 am

Woops I guess I should have phrased it differently.

I also run Trillian, connecting to AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, and Jabber. However only a handful of contacts are soley on ICQ, and of those, they are old Sojourn/Toril players.

Because I'm getting a bunch of crappy spam from ICQ, I'm wondering if it is even worth keeping a connection open to ICQ since so-few people use it.

From what you guys are saying, hardly anyone uses ICQ exclusively.

Too bad the Skype client can't connect to the other IM protocols too.

p.s. Dartan: no, not playing WoW :)
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Postby Tasan » Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:32 am

I've never had a problem with spam from ICQ... weird.
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Postby Colje » Sat Jun 24, 2006 12:04 pm

MSN ftw. Got 59 workmates + friends ;)
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Postby Kifle » Sun Jun 25, 2006 12:38 am

I use AOL and hardly ever turn it on. I mainly use it to transfer programs to people or look at their hijackthis logs. I mainly use Vent to talk to people.
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Postby Yasden » Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:58 am

I've still got a huge list of folks from the mud over the last decade on ICQ. I rarely ever start YIM. Call me old-fashioned, but I still prefer ICQ.
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Postby Duna » Sun Jun 25, 2006 2:08 am

Yasden wrote:I've still got a huge list of folks from the mud over the last decade on ICQ. I rarely ever start YIM. Call me old-fashioned, but I still prefer ICQ.


okay.. yer old fashioned :) and I think we all still have those huge lists of mud people from the past decade on our icq's...
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Postby Yasden » Sun Jun 25, 2006 2:50 am

Just FYI, you can prevent the spammers on ICQ from ever reaching you by simply going into preferences and in the Security->Spam Control area making sure all 4 boxes are checked. This will prevent people who are not on your list from sending you messages or World Wide pager messages.
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Postby Xisiqomelir » Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:48 am

I have AIM as well, but I'm really all about the ICQ
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