On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 17:44:50 GMT, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, Mike M.
<notme@invalid.email.net> wrote:
>
> My ICQ .99b Beta version seems to have stopped working. ICQ support
> recommends getting a newer version. How bad are they as far as spyware
> and ads?
>
[snip]

Pretty awful -- i.e., "completely unacceptable", in my book.

> I installed Miranda-IM and that seems to connect to the ICQ server
> okay. Is anyone here using it? Any comments?

Not familiar with that one. Others whose judgement I trust have had good
things to say about Trillian:

<http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/trillian/download.html>

but I've not used it myself.

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Jay T. Blocksom
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usenet01[at]appropriate-tech.net


"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

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