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About Joerg Droege
Expertise
I can answer all questions regarding ICQ except those like: "I have lost my password, how do I get it back?" because I am not an ICQ Team member, so I cannot do anything about lost passwords.

Experience
I did an education as a Management Assistant in Informatics, I am using ICQ since ICQ2000b, but of course I know the current ICQ client the best. I also used the alpha ComPad ICQ client.

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Management Assistant in Informatics education under the control of the CCI (Chamber of Commerce and Industry).

 
   

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Topic: ICQ



Expert: Joerg Droege
Date: 5/25/2008
Subject: trying to connect to icq gay chat

Question
Dear Joerg, You suggest uninstalling Adobe 9 (latest version) and then download an older Adobe Flash but I don't know where to get this download. You also indicate that this older adobe flash may not protect my pc properly. Why is it so difficult to get into the normal gay chat at ICQ and still be protected? Is this problem a little bit insane Joerg? Does it not sound crazy that ICQ does not provide a way for people to safely use its chat rooms? I AM SO PISSED OFF AT ICQ. What a shit organization that will not rectify this problem or provide immediate Client Customer Service help and provide a telephone number to get someone at ICQ Support to walk you through this difficulty to end up with a working solution to the problem. Thanks. Gene Corbeil.


Answer
Hello Gene!

Thanks for your question!

You must be misunderstanding or confusing something.

1) I have had a look in my archives, I do not find any previous email suggestion.  Furthermore I never suggested to anybody to uninstall Flash and reinstall an older version of Flash.

The Chat client at http://www.icq.com/chat works perfectly for me, the problem lies somewhere else I think (my reply to this issue will follow later)

2) I cannot comment on the gay chat since I am not gay myself and never ever entered any gay chat.

3) ICQ has no more any customer support since ages, and I do not like this fact myself (this is why I help people like you in my free time. I do not work for ICQ myself and do not receive payment for helping users from anybody).


4) If you are pissed about ICQ's "support", please do not yell at me but write to their HQ in Israel:  http://nafcom.blogspot.com/2006/04/no-more-icq-support-get-active.html

Here is finally my reply on the issue:



What most people do not understand is: ICQ Chat is nothing more than a server in the IRC network (check wikipedia for "IRC"!)


I suggest using an IRC client instead to connect to the ICQ chat server/room. Nice is e.g. is http://www.xchat.org/


But I think this is anyway because something blocks communication throught port 6666 which is the port IRC uses to connect and communicate.

See the great article at HowStuffWorks to understand what a firewall is and how it works: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/firewall.htm

Please check that no firewall blocks this communication!


IRC is NOT ICQ! ICQ is this: http://freealternative.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/icq6.png

And it's an instant messanger. See more at : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging

Hope this helps!
All the best!
Bye!
Joerg

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