# Testing the ICQ messaging thing

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-the-icq-messaging-thing/224405
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [January 14, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-the-icq-messaging-thing/224405 "2004-01-14T17:21:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author: ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-the-icq-messaging-thing/224405/1 "2004-01-14T17:21:26Z")

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I like the little flower thingy.

I’m sending myself a test ICQ from it.

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### Author: ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2004, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-the-icq-messaging-thing/224405/2 "2004-01-14T17:23:54Z")

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Yay! It works. And very fast too.

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### Author: ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2004, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-the-icq-messaging-thing/224405/3 "2004-01-15T11:23:22Z")

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Yeah, it’s damn cool and a very convenient way for dopers to reach me. I like it too.

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### Author: ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2004, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-the-icq-messaging-thing/224405/4 "2004-01-15T11:59:43Z")

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The AOL IM works too. 🙂

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### Author: ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2004, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-the-icq-messaging-thing/224405/5 "2004-01-15T12:06:56Z")

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Go on, someone send me an ICQ.

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### Author: ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-the-icq-messaging-thing/224405/6 "2004-01-15T15:21:11Z")

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> [@jjimm](#):
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> Go on, someone send me an ICQ.

Enjoy! La la la (must have ten characters) 😃

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### Author: ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2004, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-the-icq-messaging-thing/224405/7 "2004-01-15T15:22:09Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Get to work, dude!

And that from someone called **Slacker**! 😃

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### Author: ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2004, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-the-icq-messaging-thing/224405/8 "2004-01-15T15:27:59Z")

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> [@jjimm](#):
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> And that from someone called **Slacker**! 😃

lol yep, mine is a world of contrasts. 😃

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### Author: ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-the-icq-messaging-thing/224405/9 "2004-01-15T21:56:26Z")

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Gonna test…

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### Author: ![Teelo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@Teelo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teelo)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2004, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-the-icq-messaging-thing/224405/10 "2004-01-16T07:17:09Z")

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**Jjimm** I clicked the little ICQ thing and messaged you, but I uh…I don’t have ICQ. (I was wondering if that would work…)

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### Author: ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2004, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-the-icq-messaging-thing/224405/11 "2004-01-17T12:50:25Z")

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> [@Teelo](#):
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> **Jjimm** I clicked the little ICQ thing and messaged you, but I uh…I don’t have ICQ. (I was wondering if that would work…)

It only seems to allow me to reply via email anyway, but I was assuming the email addy would be fake.

Thanks to everyone who tested it!

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### Author: ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-the-icq-messaging-thing/224405/12 "2004-01-17T14:16:58Z")

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Hmm, lemme try it out…

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### Author: ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2004, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-the-icq-messaging-thing/224405/13 "2004-01-17T14:18:41Z")

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Very cool indeed! Great time-waster.