ICQ Suggestion — The Porch

~mikeg Mon, Jul 13, 1998 (21:11) seed

Finding out who's online with us can be difficult. How about we all download and install the ICQ internet software, and then publish our ICQ numbers here?

~riette Tue, Jul 14, 1998 (01:48) #1

Huh? What is an ICQ number? Software? I've only got T.I.T. software!

~mikeg Tue, Jul 14, 1998 (13:06) #2

hehehe visit http://www.icq.com

~terry Tue, Jul 14, 1998 (13:07) #3

I have a bunch of 'em! hot@spring.com or hot@spring.net ... I forget which is where I am in the evenings after 6 pm. hotty is my icq handle.

~riette Tue, Jul 14, 1998 (14:52) #4

If you tell me what icq stands for, I'll tell you what T.I.T. stands for.

~stacey Tue, Jul 14, 1998 (16:12) #5

*laugh* I think they'd rather come up with their own definition!

~terry Tue, Jul 14, 1998 (17:19) #6

It partly comes from ham radio, "I seek you". Now, your turn, Riette.

~kristen Tue, Jul 14, 1998 (22:26) #7

I got my ICQ number today. 15601557 is it. ICQ and email me so I can find out more about how to use this. Help.

~kristen Tue, Jul 14, 1998 (22:29) #8

I need lots of help getting started. Email me at kristen@spring.net and let me know how to build a conference list and how to get around here. Send the welcome wagon my way, please!!! I'm the redhead in Terry's video with the tatoo. Is it being discussed somewhere here? kristen@spring.net

~KitchenManager Tue, Jul 14, 1998 (22:30) #9

is you telnetting in or web-bing in?

~kristen Tue, Jul 14, 1998 (23:05) #10

Both, mostly telnetting though.

~riette Wed, Jul 15, 1998 (01:25) #11

Terry, T.I.T. stands for a-hem. . . Thorougly Interesting Things.

~mikeg Wed, Jul 15, 1998 (10:40) #12

heeeee welcome again, Kristen. I think we should open a topic in Porch specifically for new types. I'll do it right after this. In fact, right now. I'll try ICQ-ing you tonight, Kristen, cos I've never used it before!

~riette Wed, Jul 15, 1998 (14:28) #13

How does one ICQ another person? Does one have to be on the Pill to do that without getting into trouble?

~ratthing Wed, Jul 15, 1998 (17:31) #14

poor riette! flustered and confused by ourfirsttime.com!

~mikeg Wed, Jul 15, 1998 (18:24) #15

heheheh :)) download and install the ICQ software, riette, and then we cna go from there. gonna try it myself for the first time now. :)

~KitchenManager Wed, Jul 15, 1998 (18:39) #16

it's available at http://www.icq.com/

~wolf Wed, Jul 15, 1998 (20:52) #17

is it kind of like msn conferencing? do we all have to be on the same program for us to call each other? i'll go to the site and see for myself! (hi wer)

~KitchenManager Wed, Jul 15, 1998 (21:04) #18

hey, toots!

~terry Wed, Jul 15, 1998 (21:59) #19

My ICQ 5384381. hot@spring.net

~wolf Wed, Jul 15, 1998 (22:32) #20

mine is: 15655049 (btw, that download took a very looooooong time)

~wer Wed, Jul 15, 1998 (22:36) #21

gonna try and load it up on the computer at work...just don't know when I'll have the computer to myself long enough to do it...probably somewhere along my next 'bout of insomnia...

~riette Thu, Jul 16, 1998 (01:28) #22

I'll have a look later. Got to hurry - the girls will be up soon, and I still want to send e-mail to Sonja. Still trying to get her to come to the spring.

~mikeg Thu, Jul 16, 1998 (14:06) #23

make her come. tell her how beautiful we all are. especially wolf.

~wolf Thu, Jul 16, 1998 (20:38) #24

yeah, that'll work (note that tone of sarcasm)

~KitchenManager Thu, Jul 16, 1998 (22:18) #25

but, I'm tone deaf...

~riette Fri, Jul 17, 1998 (04:00) #26

Nope, Sonja won't come. I even promised her to send her picture to Mike to put into Babes (she is by FAR the better looking), but she won't. Thinks her English isn't good enough. Silly bugger. I told her that bad English never stopped the Boers from attacking the English, but no, she's too decent. That makes me the evil twin, I suppose. No, actually she simply works too much to be able to sit on the computer like I do - she's a medical transcriptor/CAT scan operator, and constantly on call. She says she might log in when she goes home in October for holiday - think my brother has internet now.

~terry Fri, Jul 17, 1998 (05:39) #27

Are you any relation to the Waltons in Arkansas? The ones that started up a little chain of stores?

~riette Fri, Jul 17, 1998 (10:35) #28

I don't know! It is my husband's name that I've taken for practical reasons - hope that doesn't make me submissive. My unmarried name was Steyn. But I'll ask him! Wish WE owned a little chain of stores . . .

~terry Fri, Jul 17, 1998 (11:28) #29

Yep, the Waltons have a little mom and pop store called WalMart. Ever heard of it? They're the third richest family in the world, bhind Bill Gates and some sheik or something. Maybe the fourth.

~wolf Fri, Jul 17, 1998 (15:26) #30

thought you were gonna ask her if she was related to John-Boy or something!

~riette Fri, Jul 17, 1998 (15:30) #31

As the Afrikaners would say: FOK dit!!! 'Cos I asked him, but nope, his family roots all lie in a town called Billingham in northern England where everyone worked in mines, and the girls bore and average of 11 children each, and he is one of only two members of that family who turned out intelligent enough to go to university (but may I brag by saying my husband's an Oxbridge man?). His intelligent cousin, Alan Walton became a writer of erotic works and translated works such as 'The perfumed garden' into English. And that's why we're not the third or fourth richest buggers in the world. �BIG BIG SIGH�

~mikeg Wed, Sep 23, 1998 (14:58) #32

I've finally added you all to my ICQ program (which I had left lurking in the corner). I'll drop you all messages now...

~terry Wed, Sep 23, 1998 (15:00) #33

What's your ICQ id? Or number? Try adding judybee@swbell.net to your icq list. Also, warm@spring.net, hot@spring.net, cold@spring.net.

~mikeg Wed, Sep 23, 1998 (15:03) #34

15546219 i've added hot@spring.net, i think

~mikeg Wed, Sep 23, 1998 (15:04) #35

hot@spring.net doesn't seem to be online

~terry Wed, Sep 23, 1998 (15:06) #36

What about warm@spring.net ... that's where Kristen checks in.

~terry Wed, Sep 23, 1998 (15:07) #37

Do you have NetMeeting also, Mike?

~mikeg Wed, Sep 23, 1998 (15:19) #38

i did have, but i never managed to get it configured so i didn't bother maybe if you wanted to try it out i'd have another go

~terry Wed, Sep 23, 1998 (15:37) #39

Well, all our workstations at Spring Austin are set up with NetMeeting and most with video. At least 3 or 4 are set up this way. The one in the kitchen is the most used.

~terry Wed, Sep 23, 1998 (15:42) #40

The trick to finding us on NetMeeting is to log in to the server: ils.business.four11.com as a business user. Then sort the listings by city and look for Austin, TX. That will most likely show all our NetMeeting sessions.