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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.

Education/Credentials
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: 6/23/2008
Subject: icq chat

Question
I've been using icq for years and have been able to chat with everyone in my friends list. Lately, I cannot join with some of my friends list in chat rooms. We can continue to im. When I try to join in a chat with some of my friends list I receive a message, "not responding" then "abort".

Answer
Hi Janet!

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.

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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