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ICQ Starts Blocking Alternative Clients

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday July 2, 2008 @02:58AM from the well-that's-not-how-friends-play-nice dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It appears that since yesterday ICQ has blocked access to the ICQ network to alternative clients. Users of QIP, Adium, and other clients are getting a 'The client version you are using is too old. Please upgrade'. No comment yet from ICQ or AOL."

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Re:Miranda still working. by Anonymous Coward · 2008-07-02 03:51 · Score: 5, Insightful

The summary is wrong. They don't block alternative clients but an old version of the protocol. Alternative clients that emulate the current version are fine.