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Well, it's been a year or two since AOL changed the ICQ servers such that the V4 UDP procotol is no longer supported. Thus Net::ICQ is no longer useful as it relied on that protocol. However, this code may still be useful to some as a learning tool or a base for other systems, and someone may even want to take over the project and update the protocol support. So if you want to access ICQ from perl, I'm sorry to say that Net::ICQ is no longer an option.

Well the project webpage is actually useful now. Check it out. http://neticq.sourceforge.net . Also, 0.15 should be out soon.

This is the first official release after the complete rewrite. Compliant with ICQv5, woo! Lots of stuff should work; receiving and sending messages and URLs are the only things extensively tested so far so there may well be bugs in the other event types.

Get it at: http://download.sourceforge.net/neticq/Net-ICQ-0.12.tar.gz

Luke and I have completely rewritten Net::ICQ with support for pretty much all of the v5 protocol. It's available through anonymous CVS, but the documentation is nearly nonexistent. Documentation should be done really soon, at which point we'll release an official 0.11a tarball and submit it to CPAN.

Bek Oberin's Net::ICQ version 0.08a has been imported to the CVS Tree. The correct CVS Module is Net-ICQ. The Net-ICQ-0.08a module was a mistake and will be removed shortly.