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Message no. 1
From: Lady Jestyr <jestyr@*******.DIALIX.COM.AU>
Subject: Bandwagoneering...
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:35:46 +1000
Just thought I'd leap on the bandwagon. I have just downloaded and
installed ICQ, so if anyone feels like dropping me a line my UIN is
2439321. :)


Lady Jestyr

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Message no. 2
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Bandwagoneering...
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:16:48 +0100
|
|Just thought I'd leap on the bandwagon. I have just downloaded and
|installed ICQ, so if anyone feels like dropping me a line my UIN is
|2439321. :)


That's the second time today....

WTF IS ICQ and UIN???

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Message no. 3
From: Stefan <casanova@***.PASSAGEN.SE>
Subject: Re: Bandwagoneering...
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 15:00:22 +0000
> That's the second time today....

> WTF IS ICQ and UIN???

Well Spike ... ICQ is a IRC/EMAIL/FTP like program all in one for the
wintel platform and the UIN is you identification number.... for
more info I urge you to check out www.icq.com .... It is quite handy.

It is a good way of keeping track if your friends are online :)

1403212 is my UIN if anybody wanted to know that :)

/Stefan
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Message no. 4
From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
Subject: Re: Bandwagoneering...
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 07:59:53 -0600
At 15:00 7/31/97 +0000, you wrote:
>> That's the second time today....
>
>> WTF IS ICQ and UIN???
>
>Well Spike ... ICQ is a IRC/EMAIL/FTP like program all in one for the
>wintel platform and the UIN is you identification number.... for
>more info I urge you to check out www.icq.com .... It is quite handy.

And AFAIK it's Win95/NT only, so Spikey can't use it.
It's much crummier than IRC anyways.. it's useful to keep track of people,
but not much fun to chat with.

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Message no. 5
From: Stefan <casanova@***.PASSAGEN.SE>
Subject: Re: Bandwagoneering...
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 16:11:39 +0000
> >> WTF IS ICQ and UIN???
> >
> >Well Spike ... ICQ is a IRC/EMAIL/FTP like program all in one for the
> >wintel platform and the UIN is you identification number.... for
> >more info I urge you to check out www.icq.com .... It is quite handy.
>
> And AFAIK it's Win95/NT only, so Spikey can't use it.
> It's much crummier than IRC anyways.. it's useful to keep track of people,
> but not much fun to chat with.

I never said it was good Adam ... just handy :) It is a wintel
proggy so how good can it really be ? :) It is way crummier than IRC
but as you said it is useful for keeping track of people ...

Well I can only use it in school ... And frankly I am glad that I
can't run it on my Amiga ...

/Stefan

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Message no. 6
From: "Adam J. Lyle" <wolfjack@****.BCL.NET>
Subject: Re: Bandwagoneering...
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 10:00:04 -0500
On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Stefan wrote:

> I never said it was good Adam ... just handy :) It is a wintel
> proggy so how good can it really be ? :) It is way crummier than IRC
> but as you said it is useful for keeping track of people ...
>
> Well I can only use it in school ... And frankly I am glad that I
> can't run it on my Amiga ...
>
> /Stefan
>

It's an ok program to keep track of ppl as long as they are not
invisible, or away, or in DnD mode. The options for ftp are nice though,
auot accept, etc. Makes it easy to send stuff from work computers to
home ones, and the reverse as well.

Adam
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Message no. 7
From: Lady Jestyr <jestyr@*******.DIALIX.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: Bandwagoneering...
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 08:00:04 +1000
> And AFAIK it's Win95/NT only, so Spikey can't use it.

I think there's a Win 3.11 version too...

> It's much crummier than IRC anyways.. it's useful to keep track of people,
> but not much fun to chat with.

It would be OK, I think, if the server was more reliable.

Lady Jestyr

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Message no. 8
From: Joshua T Brown <spamquat@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Bandwagoneering...
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 19:33:09 -0500
On Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:35:46 +1000 Lady Jestyr
<jestyr@*******.DIALIX.COM.AU> writes:
>Just thought I'd leap on the bandwagon. I have just downloaded and
>installed ICQ, so if anyone feels like dropping me a line my UIN is
>2439321. :)
>
Woo Hoo!

Mine is 2112514 .....
I loves me that ICQ.... <smirk>
My favorite feature is the ability to be paged when I'm online by
people....
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Message no. 9
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Bandwagoneering...
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 09:15:19 +0100
|Mine is 2112514 .....
|I loves me that ICQ.... <smirk>
|My favorite feature is the ability to be paged when I'm online by
|people....

Nothing special about that!
I can do that quite easily with Unix.

Just a matter of

echo <message> | write <e-mail address>

Or if I want BIG, I can use banner instead of echo......
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|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" |
|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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|GCv3.1 GCS/EL>$ d---(dpu) s+/- a- C++ U N++ o+ K- w-- M+/++ PS+++ PE- Y t+ |
|5++ X+/++ R+ tv+ b+ D G e>PhD h/h+ !r! !y-|I can't say F**K either now! :( |
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Message no. 10
From: George Metz <W0lfstar@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Bandwagoneering...
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 14:58:34 -0400
In a message dated 97-08-01 07:32:27 EDT, you write:

> Nothing special about that!
> I can do that quite easily with Unix.
>
> Just a matter of
>
> echo <message> | write <e-mail address>
>
> Or if I want BIG, I can use banner instead of echo......

Of course. But keep in mind, they've all been sucked in by the evil vortex
that is MacroSQUASH.... errr... Microsoft.... Lose95 couldn't do that
natively in about a century's worth of upgrades....

Wolfstar

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