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ICQ Starts Blocking Alternative Clients

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Re:ICQ? by larry+bagina · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    jabber (supported by google mail) and yahoo im... I used to get laid fairly regularly with yahoo chat hookups. (And I was gay or had no standards, it would have been at least twice a day!) It went massively downhill with the bots though :(

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