RE: IM Control WAS BabyCam

["Roger" <roger@xxxxxxx>]

If you open a DOS window and run the command NETSTAT -A, you can see the
connections that are made by ICQ, mine always seems to show a direct
connection to the person I am talking to - IP address visible

Roger Shingler


>
> 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.
>
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>
>
> 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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