According to an ICQ.com forum thread, linked to by Slashdot, ICQ has reportedly started blocking third-party chat clients, such as pidgin. Users receive a message telling them their "client version is too old". No further to date. http://www.icq.com/forums/index.php?act=view_topic&group_id=400&topic_id=176... http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/02/1331224&from=rss Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin)