in reply to a thing i wrote to circumvent some restrictions on connecting to AIM

Well, howard40, this is kinda an interesting project to do, from what I saw of the actual code, yes it was a bit sloppy, but at least it did the job for now!! ^_^ The only questions I have for you are, why do you need to avoid or go around restrictions in AOL's IM? I use it all the time on my home and school computer, and I never have to really go around ANY restrictions. Secondly, and lastly, about how you are going to add the feature where you can leave messages for friends even when they are not online is, why not just use ICQ?? It does that, and since it is already implemented, why reinvent the wheel?? I don't know... just some things to ponder I suppose!! Have a great day...

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Re: Re: a thing i wrote to circumvent some restrictions on connecting to AIM
by howard40 (Beadle) on Mar 12, 2001 at 16:18 UTC
    I did it mostly just for fun, to see if it could be done. i realize that a great many people can get to any place on the internet that they wish, but there are also some people in offices and computer labs that have access to the AIM service blocked or monitored in some way. i know that ICQ does the message queue thing, but as far as i know, AIM does not have that feature yet... so i figured it'd be neat to try and implement it. it's not reinventing the wheel since AIM users cannot (to my knowlege) communicate with the ICQ network and thus take advantage of the ICQ message queue system.

    of course, if people started using jabber, most of those things would be solved, but for the time being, i wanted to play with the Net::AIM modules ;)

    the code is sloppy as hell now, becuase i hacked it up real quick to see if it would work... i'll get to cleaning it up and adding more features (like notifying you when buddies sign in/out) and feature to list current online buddies along with the queue system. i'll post code updates when i modify things.
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