AboutJoerg 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.
Education/Credentials Management Assistant in Informatics education under the control of the CCI (Chamber of Commerce and Industry).
Expert: Joerg Droege Date: 6/19/2008 Subject: cant connect to icq, seeking help
Question Trying to Connect - irc.icq.com
Not Connected.
Trying to reconnect in a few seconds...
Trying to Connect - irc.icq.com
Not Connected.
Trying to reconnect in a few seconds...
dear Joerg, i get above message when i try to connect icq web based chat room, i cant connect icq using scripts either, can you kindly help to figure out where is the problem?
thank you
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Answer Hi, thanks for your question!
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.
