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From: "Mark A. Imbriaco" <mark.imbriaco@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: icq
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 21:37:28 -0400
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Sean Marshall wrote:

> you guys ever heard of ICQ? it is like AOL NetMessanger but better and
> easier, and best of all, is not AOL.

*chuckle* Umm, I beg to differ. ICQ is indeed owned by AOL. In my
experience, AOL Instant Messenger has been faster and more stable than
ICQ by a long shot -- ICQ has the advantage of having more features
at the moment, though.

> I think we should really consider it. I can send the address for picking up
> the program, relatively small download, or attach it to a message

I believe the current ICQ zip file is about 2.5 megs .. if you send that
to this list I will do "Bad Things" (tm) to you.

For those who are interested, however:

http://www.icq.com/ - ICQ
http://www.aol.com/aim/ - Instant Messenger

There are clones of both for Unix that can be found fairly easily via
http://www.freshmeat.net/.

-Mark

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