ICQ for Windows 95

The location is http://www.mirabilis.com/pub/icqsetup.exe I just signed up as 203760 with my email address terry@spring.com This may be useful for our group being able to get in touch with each other. I see Amy is already signed up. She's such an early adopter!

This program is proving to have pretty amazing ramifications for our workgroup. The model that Mirabilis is using to propagate this program via email is exceedingly clever. I can see why this is Forrest's app of the week, and I can see incredible potential in the direction these folks are going for distribution of software. Check it out!

Hmmm I don't understand how this is working

What don't you understand?

Give Forrest a slam dunk for finding this software.

I have been using this piece of software for almost a month, I find it amazingly simple and easy to use. I guess this new product will change many of the net's habits in communication. On the other hand, I do not know if you had the same problems I am having for the last couple of weeks : ICQ server seems to be very hectic : online/offline very often, connecting sometimes takes about 30 minutes, etc...

Sounds like "growing pains".

This is the app I've been waiting for. Now when I'm online my friends and family can get in touch with me when the phone's busy! I think it's great! It works perfectly with IPhone. I set-up IPhone on my moms computer and she never could figure it out (to many details) In ICQ she just goes to external apps and clicks IPhone and my IPhone rings, very simple. The one thing I don't like (which they tell me will be corrected in the final release) is upon disconnecting from the net, ICQ tries to reconnect and brings up the Win95 dialer box. If you close it you then get an error. No big deal, just annoying. I wonder how much the final release will be?

Good point about the external app activation capability. Has anyone else had experience with this?

iv'e not had any probs. with ICQ bringing up the Win95 dialer... I give ICQ my vote for Internet App. of the year!

i recently got icq and have had the dialer truble mentioned but other than being a bit annoying its a great thing, and i too have had the on again off again truble bit not very often

It's down at times I've noticed, but generally pretty reliable.

I am having conflict problems. ICQ was running OK earlier today, but now freezes up my system. Don't know what is wrong. It causes Norton Crash Guard to come up and tell me that it is froze. Sometimes I can't even get out of it, and have to reboot with power button. Does anyone else have this problem? What did you to fix it. kenr@nwinfo.net

I haven't had this problem, although I have noticed more frequent system freeze ups and I haven't been able to trace them down. The biggest problem with ICQ that I can attribute directly to it is the proliferation of messages that ICQ is not connected when I lose my Internet connection. I then either have to reboot the system to clear out dozens of messages that ICQ is not connected or click ok a few dozen times. ICQ may need to do some substantial SQA (software quality testing) at this stage. The Spring provides this service professionally in our test labs.

Just signed on today. Registration went OK. UIN is 910969 Can't connect to the ICQ Database, comes back with an error msg to that effect. I'm I doing something wrong or is there a problem with their server? Thanks JP

It very well could be a server problem. Keep trying and let us know if you connect ok. I'm 304652 uin. It's generally pretty reliable.

How many servers are available with ICQ? Only one???? If not, please give me some adresses. Thanx /martin 888184

ICQ is great except for one thing!!! IT DOES NOT WORK ON MY PC CONNECTED TO MY SCHOOL'S APPLETALK NETWORK If anyone has any ideas on how to fix this problem please send me email at alessing@writeme.com ICQ tech support does not respond to my crys for help.

I have been unable to register for ICQ. I get an error message telling me to check the ICQ Firewall settings. I am not behind a firewall. I cannot contact technical support. If anyone knows what I should do please send an Email at Whitetail-Acres@bfm.org

Tell us more about how you're connecting; who is your isp and what type of email connection do you have?

Where can I get help with ICQ for Windows 3.1? I can't even complete the registration process? I get; Could not complete registration! Please check status of Internet connection. If behind a firewall, check ICQ firewall settings. Then click "Retry". If registration still fails, please view our technical support page by clicking the button below.

Dial in modem connection thru sisqtel.net pop3 email

I believe my problem has something to do with a firewall because when I signed up with this conference It showed my emial address as; firewall.nrtc.net AND that same line appears in many of my e-mail headers. HOWEVER our webmaster at sisqtel.net says she has had ICQ working on her Windows 95 machine for months and can't see how it could be a firewall problem. I have read every self help page I can find on ICQ system and else where. I think I need to find a way to tell my ISP how to let me through/arounfd the firewall. Any suggestions?

I'm checking on this with an ICQ expert buddy of mine, can you check back in a day or two? I'll try and find out what's happening.

Question: Has anyone had or know of lock-up problems on AOL using ICQ? The problem computer has been running win95/AOL95 and ICQ for about four months, and it seems that every time they try and access a web site, it starts to load, then locks up. the same thing happens when they try and upload a file from MAIL. we have cleaned the hard drive, done the diag. did a clean reload of AOL and everything else we could think of. This problem does not seem to happen when using MSM. I am beginning to think that it may be a shared file conflict. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thank you. Cogen69@aol.com Paul Gallagher

I would like someone to send me a comparison between PowWow and ICQ. Which is better? Aren't they basically the same? I like the drawing board in PowWow, and from what I see, ICQ does not have it. But I want to use the best, so which one? And why? From what I am reading here and in the PowWow forum (Topic 28) Pow Wow is superior. I have not experienced any lockups (and that would REALLY be annoying!!!) and looking up friends is easy with the "buddy list". You can chose to direct connect with them, or use PowWow to search for them for you - it looks like... downloading direct, chat direct, sounds, speech, net cruise with your associates, etc.. It's all there.

Amen Brother.

How is the audio component? Doe it work well. Would you be up for trying it out with me?

Leading Industry Vendors Join Microsoft In Announcing Support For Creation of Open "Buddy List" Protocol Standard Interoperable Protocol Will Make It Easier to Identify Online Presence of Friends, Colleagues On the Internet REDMOND, Wash. - Nov. 24, 1997 - Microsoft Corp. today announced that more than 40 leading industry vendors have announced support to create the first open protocol to standardize how applications such as "buddy lists" identify the presence of friends and business associates online. This protocol is intended to make it easier for users to locate, connect to and communicate with each other anywhere on the Internet. To initiate this process, Microsoft has submitted a proposed specification called the "rendezvous protocol" (RVP) to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The RVP specification uses an open, distributed model that enables the creation of interoperable client and server solutions, allowing for compatibility across products, platforms and vendors. Microsoft has submitted the specification to the IETF, which is the principal body engaged in the development of new Internet standard specifications, with the goal of creating an open Internet standard for identifying online presence. "International and industry standards organizations have established interoperable protocols for mail, chat and many other forms of conferencing on the Internet," said John Ludwig, vice president of the Internet client and collaboration division at Microsoft. "However, ways of finding friends, family and colleagues to communicate with online are still in the dark ages of proprietary networks. It's our goal to evolve the Internet into a real-time multimedia communications network, and this requires unrelenting industry commitment to interoperability standards. The RVP submission, along with broad industry involvement, is a key step toward achieving that goal." 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My ICQ works well but uses up so much of this computer (and it is 700MHz 128 RAM) that other programs freeze. I get the same quailty conversationalists on Yahoo and AOL IM (for non-AOL users) and much prefer them. Oh yes, Ihave gotten marriage proposals on all three of them and on MSN, too whichI consider the least of the standard IM's available. I have since deleted ICQ and all of its tentacles from my computer. I think I favor Yahoo the most since I can be invisible to all and conduct a private convesation without being broken into by the lusting and curious of the world. Maaybe it is just me. Anyone else have these "problems"??

Nope, I haven't gotten any marriage proposals.

Want a few? Maybe they have sisters...! One came three sentences into my first (and last) conversation with him. Can you say "Green Card"?!