Re: Found the source of various AIM problems
Emi Melissa Briet <[email protected]>
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Michael Park wrote: > A while ago I reported to this list that I was having a few troubles > with the AIM part of Fire. Buddies on my list could never see when I > was away or idle. Additionally they could not see my away message > when they tried getting info on me until they actually got an away > message response when they messaged me. Lastly nobody could see my > profile - it was totally blank to any user that tried to look at it. > > I found out what the problem was, and am hoping if The Developers That > Be are aware of it. After much fiddling I found out that it seems to > be somehow related to the profile that I was using. There seems to be > an internal limit to the amount of characters the Fire profile (or > perhaps the AIM server?) is able to store before things start > breaking. If you stay under that limit, everything is fine, but if > you went over it (like I did) stuff stops working. I don't know what > the character limit is, but when I cut my HUGE profile in half, all > the stuff that broke started working again. > > Has this bug been reported? > > And once again, I would like to say thank you for an awesome Mac OS X > messaging client! There's another issue with AIM as well, but I dunno if it's manifested much yet. AOL recently changed their AIM TOS to say that you agree not to use any third-party clients, and use of such is grounds for username removal. So the client has to make sure it self-identifies as the regular AIM client....dunno if anyone else has run into this yet. --Emi ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Fire-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fire-talk Have a question? Please read the Fire Frequently Asked Questions: http://fire.sourceforge.net/faq.shtml