My ICQ contact list has been deleted

[Mahdi]

So, if you want me to add you, my number is 58450875.

[Andrew]

How was it deleted? did you just sign up for a new account? you can uninstall icq and still use you old account as long as you remember your uername and passowrd i think and you still get old contacts.

[Mahdi]

I ahve my old account, but I had to uninstall all the icq stuff from mycomputer, including my contact list.

[Andrew]

I thought if you just put your password and icq number in it gave you your list? I thought they updated it as it such a pain in the ...

Guess not. lol :(

[Terror]

this apart from the fact that there's more pretty girls on msn, is why i prefer msn.

[Mahdi]

I use both.

[Andrew]

ICQ is old school, and one of my friends only uses it as all of his friends or contacts use it. I mostly use MSN, but thats only because everyone I know uses it.(I don't know why other than its ease of use)

Althoug ICQ may have delined because there was too much stuff on it for the average user.

[Jack Leaf]

When I had ICQ installed my computer crashed five times in a day.

[Atomic Mitten]

this apart from the fact that there's more pretty girls on msn, is why i prefer msn.

Where ? on MSN ? lol

[Jack Leaf]

We all have different taste...

[SurlyPIG]

One thing I miss about ICQ is that you can change the names of the people on your contact list. Everybody I know uses MSN and I wish you could do that. I don't have a flipping clue who 90% of the people on my list are. I have almost 100 contacts (probably only 20 of whom I added myself) and whenever I turn the thing on it's there's always like 7 people who say hi and I have no idea who the f*** they are. And half the people have some long-ass stupid name that's a quote from a movie or a song or something and uses smilies in it but they don't appear in the list so it's just bizzare characters and the other half change their name like every freakin' day. AUGH! That really annoys me. I guess that's why I hardly use it anymore.

[Jack Leaf]

Install MSN plus.

[Atomic Mitten]

true then you can rename the contacts, so you know who they are ! ;)

[Egeides]

MSN became used by everyone because Microsoft, the evil Microsoft, decided that they would like to use their monopoly on OS system to bring their other products. Nothing more :P

[Atomic Mitten]

I think your confusing Windows Messenger with Microsoft Messenger 6,1 which you have to download as an extra ! so no one is forcing you to use it. ;)

[Egeides]

Well it is going mainstream alot more easily after every user taking what's already on got on MSN ;)

Anyway, I can't wait to see what they incorporated on their next OS: Longhorn.

[Atomic Mitten]

Well with a name like Longhorn there's bound to be alot of Microsoft Bullshit ! ;D

[gryphon]

just wait untill you hear about the sofware and musics copyright protection Microsoft is planning to use for Longhorn. . .

Not that it's ever gon'na work .. but nevertheless. . . :P

[Atomic Mitten]

Do you have a link for that info gryphon ?

[gryphon]

it has been released in the Microsoft press releases. Think Slashdot had a few articles about it during the years / months. ..

[Egeides]

Atomic, I have a link. It's talking about Palladium's "trusted computing" but frankly it means to trust Microsoft. They changed its name, because of how unpopular it was I guess, but it's basically the same problem:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

If you wish to further your readings and get some other interesting aspect, this is also interesting even though we're still not there:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

[Danuary]

theres a movement called "against tcpa" I joined it. I think the site is www.againsttcpa.com check it out