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Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> According to an ICQ.com forum thread, linked to by Slashdot, ICQ has
> reportedly started blocking third-party chat clients, such as pidgin.

FWIW, I'm currently logged in via Trillian with no issues.

Andrew

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> According to an ICQ.com forum thread, linked to by Slashdot, ICQ has
> reportedly started blocking third-party chat clients, such as pidgin.


Pidgin released an updated today.. works just fine now.

I think this only has to do with the version of ICQ the client emulates.
For example Adium version 1.2.5 emulates a version that is actually too
old and will not work. So I updated to 1.2.6 which was released yesterday
(YMMV) and was able to login without any issues. I think there is also an
older Adium client that works maybe 1.12 or so. Also, is this really an
outage??


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"Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
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[outages] ICQ: Blocking third-party clients






According to an ICQ.com forum thread, linked to by Slashdot, ICQ has
reportedly started blocking third-party chat clients, such as pidgin.

Users receive a message telling them their "client version is too old".

No further to date.


http://www.icq.com/forums/index.php?act=view_topic&group_id=400&topic_id=176034&forum_page=1


http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/02/1331224&from=rss

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I don't think ICQ is blocking anything, because I'm connected from
Adium and it redirects me to the Pidgin website to get a "new version"
of the software. I think it's more of a need for the IM client guys
to update their crap to the newer ICQ protocol version.

-Daniel

On Jul 2, 2008, at 11:22 AM, Andrew Cruse wrote:

> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>> According to an ICQ.com forum thread, linked to by Slashdot, ICQ has
>> reportedly started blocking third-party chat clients, such as pidgin.
>
> FWIW, I'm currently logged in via Trillian with no issues.
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> Andrew
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I updated my pidgin client to the latest release and haven't had any issues connecting.

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> Subject: Re: [outages] ICQ: Blocking third-party clients
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> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > According to an ICQ.com forum thread, linked to by Slashdot, ICQ has
> > reportedly started blocking third-party chat clients, such as pidgin.
>
> FWIW, I'm currently logged in via Trillian with no issues.
>
> Andrew
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I think pidgin updated the libpurple library to the new protocol version yesterday


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Subject: Re: [outages] ICQ: Blocking third-party clients

I updated my pidgin client to the latest release and haven't had any issues connecting.

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> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > According to an ICQ.com forum thread, linked to by Slashdot, ICQ has
> > reportedly started blocking third-party chat clients, such as pidgin.
>
> FWIW, I'm currently logged in via Trillian with no issues.
>
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Sent from my BlackBerry? wireless device

I know I'm new here so for give me, but is this really an outage?




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Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> According to an ICQ.com forum thread, linked to by Slashdot, ICQ has
> reportedly started blocking third-party chat clients, such as pidgin.


Pidgin released an updated today.. works just fine now.
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I would think that anything that causes end users to call the support desk because they can't connect is considered an "outage".



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Subject: Re: [outages] ICQ: Blocking third-party clients


I know I'm new here so for give me, but is this really an outage?


"Lasher, Donn" <DLasher at newedgenetworks.com>
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Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> According to an ICQ.com forum thread, linked to by Slashdot, ICQ has
> reportedly started blocking third-party chat clients, such as pidgin.


Pidgin released an updated today.. works just fine now.
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Folks,

Posting should go outages at isotf.org and please keep this thread to a
minimum so we don't get off track.


regards,
/virendra


Joseph Jackson wrote:
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:08:20PM -0700, Joseph Jackson wrote:
> I would think that anything that causes end users to call the support desk
> because they can???t connect is considered an ???outage???.

That is the filter I apply, yes.

Cheers,
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