AOL sell ICQ to DST (Russia)

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Post by Uncle_Sam » Wed, Apr 28, 2010, 12:50 PM UTC

AOL sell ICQ to DST (Russia)
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Re: AOL sell ICQ to DST (Russia)

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Post by j_baker » Wed, Apr 28, 2010, 1:24 PM UTC

I think this title should win an award for most three letter acronyms in an HN title. :-)

Re: AOL sell ICQ to DST (Russia)

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 28, 2010, 1:33 PM UTC

j_baker wrote: post #2

I think this title should win an award for most three letter acronyms in an HN title. :-)

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Re: AOL sell ICQ to DST (Russia)

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Post by josefresco » Wed, Apr 28, 2010, 1:39 PM UTC

Still run ICQ+Pidgin+OTR daily. And while I don't have the coveted 6 digit ICQ UIN I got a 7 digit so that makes me old.

I wonder if this will increase or decrease the amount of Russian spam I receive through the service. I know some who get bombarded daily.

Re: AOL sell ICQ to DST (Russia)

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Post by ruslan » Wed, Apr 28, 2010, 1:41 PM UTC

There's a great and unstoppable tendency in Russia to switch to Jabber, so I wonder why would someone want to invest huge pile of money into almost dead service based on a centuary old technology? Either investors are dumb or there's some grassroot movement involved.

Re: AOL sell ICQ to DST (Russia)

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Post by ruslan » Wed, Apr 28, 2010, 1:43 PM UTC

josefresco wrote: post #4

Still run ICQ+Pidgin+OTR daily. And while I don't have the coveted 6 digit ICQ UIN I got a 7 digit so that makes me old. I wonder if this will increase or decrease the amount of Russian spam I receive through the service. I know some who get bombarded daily.

ICQ/OSCAR protocol is totally insecure in essence, any attempt to fight spam on ICQ network is futile. It's kind of same as with email/SMTP.

Re: AOL sell ICQ to DST (Russia)

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Post by powrtoch » Wed, Apr 28, 2010, 1:45 PM UTC

j_baker wrote: post #2

I think this title should win an award for most three letter acronyms in an HN title. :-)

TLA is our DNA.

Re: AOL sell ICQ to DST (Russia)

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Post by rit » Wed, Apr 28, 2010, 1:49 PM UTC

josefresco wrote: post #4

Still run ICQ+Pidgin+OTR daily. And while I don't have the coveted 6 digit ICQ UIN I got a 7 digit so that makes me old. I wonder if this will increase or decrease the amount of Russian spam I receive through the service. I know some who get bombarded daily.

I still have one but I never actually log in - got the 6 digit even (#924218). I didn't realize it was an active, viable service still. At least at a level of independent value that makes it worth selling off.

Re: AOL sell ICQ to DST (Russia)

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Post by henrikschroder » Wed, Apr 28, 2010, 2:20 PM UTC

josefresco wrote: post #4

Still run ICQ+Pidgin+OTR daily. And while I don't have the coveted 6 digit ICQ UIN I got a 7 digit so that makes me old. I wonder if this will increase or decrease the amount of Russian spam I receive through the service. I know some who get bombarded daily.

I have a 6-digit UIN, and I get bombarded daily with russian spam.

Then again, I almost never talk to someone over ICQ so I could just shut it down, but then again I'm running Miranda so one more protocol doesn't bother me much.

Re: AOL sell ICQ to DST (Russia)

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Post by raquo » Wed, Apr 28, 2010, 2:26 PM UTC

josefresco wrote: post #4

Still run ICQ+Pidgin+OTR daily. And while I don't have the coveted 6 digit ICQ UIN I got a 7 digit so that makes me old. I wonder if this will increase or decrease the amount of Russian spam I receive through the service. I know some who get bombarded daily.

Tip: Setting Falkland Islands as my location and clearing age and gender helped me get about 95% less spam in Skype. (On ICQ the decrease in spam was noticable, but not so big).