Re: IM Control WAS BabyCam

["Steve" <steve@xxxxxxx>]

I believed that ICQ only initiated a direct connection after a certain
amount of time depending on server traffic and how much people where
typing... Or so Ive been told.

I am currently coming up with a VB program so you can script events into
MSN
messenger.

I'll post more details soon...


Steve D
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Risby" <john@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 7:41 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] BabyCam


> actually, I thought - with ICQ at least - that once an initial message
> had been forward from client (me) > icq server > client (you),
the
> clients then used direct ip addresses and bypassed the server. i would
> hope so for 2 reasons, 1) security - from my point of view, why should
> "they" get to log all my conversations and 2)
bandwidth/processing power
> - they would have to have a hell of a lot of bandwidth and servers to
> cope with the (unnecessary) data.
>
> john
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gerard McGovern [mailto:stuff@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 13 March 2002 19:12
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] BabyCam
> >
> >
> > > That's not how IM works.
> > >
> > > IM is not a Peer to Peer service. It's Client-Server.
> >
> > Except in the case of ICQ where *certain* messages are
> > delivered straight client-to-client.
> >
> > G
> >
> >
>
>
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