Re: Broken user lists

On 7/13/07, Sebastian Renzi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yesterday morning I had the same problem. I put some contacts in my
> invisible list and they could see me online. In the afternoon I had some
> free time and I decided to take a deeper look into it. I booted up in
> windows and did some sniffing, but everything seemed to be working fine, so
> I went back to Linux and everything was working there too.
> Today I'm also checking it and it works great.
> In my opinion, the reason why sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't is
> that the guys from ICQ are changing things in their servers and this is why
> some things have an erratic behaviour. ICQ6 is under development and they're
> probably adding some stuff to their protocols.
> For instance, if you search for users in licq and you ask for online users
> only, the result is some online and some offline contacts. I thought this
> was a problem with licq, but if you go to
> http://www.icq.com/people/?advanced=1 and ask for online
> users online it also returns some offline users, so I guess their doing some
> nasty things in their servers.
> I might be wrong, of course, nut this is what I've found. Can confirm if
> your visible/invisible list is working now? Thanks.

And I thought it was just me. I've double, triple, etc... checked
these things and couldn't find anything wrong. I guess it is just a
crappy protocol :(

Jon

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