How Do I Send SMS Messages Using My ICQ Account ? -- Followup

[Tres Finocchiaro]

The ICQ has this in the cached google results:

Use ICQ to send free SMS messages. Australia, Canada, Israel, Singapore and
> Taiwan coverage


http://lmgtfy.com/?q=icq+sms#

-Tres


- Tres.Finocchiaro at gmail.com


On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Jay F Shachter <jay at m5.chicago.il.us> wrote:

> Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Mark Doliner would write on Tue
> Dec  3 19:57:28 2013:
>
> >
> >>>
> >>> I think the online/offline status is not important. AOL, AIM, ICQ,
> >>> Web-ICQ, Pidgin, etc. have no idea whether the person's phone is on
> >>> or off.  That functionality isn't supported by the SMS network.
> >>> Moreover, SMS is a store-and-forward system, where if a phone is off
> >>> or disconnected then text messages destined for that phone will be
> >>> stored until the next time the phone connects to the mobile network.
> >>
> >> So Web-ICQ should do what Pidgin does, which is always show such
> >> contacts to be online, since they are always contactable.  That
> >> Web-ICQ shows my contacts to be offline is then, perhaps, a clue,
> >> indicating that the contacts were, perhaps, not added correctly.
> >
> > Perhaps.  Or it could just be a behavioral difference between Web-ICQ
> > and Pidgin. To my knowledge there isn't much that can be wrong about
> > the way these buddies are added. To my knowledge there isn't anything
> > special about the buddies--they're just specially formatted usernames.
> >
> >> Does Web-ICQ show your contacts to be offline also?
> >
> > Yes, Web-ICQ shows my mobile contact to be offline also.
> >
>
> Did you e-mail the people at icqsupport.ru at corp.mail.ru and tell them
> that you are experiencing the same problem?  I can't think of anything
> further to do, other than increasing the priority of the problem for
> the people at icqsupport.ru at corp.mail.ru by letting them know that
> more than one person is experiencing the problem.  If you do so,
> please tell them to associate your trouble report with Ticket
> #2013120221005754, the number that was assigned to my trouble report.
>
> As always, please let me know if you learn how to solve this, and of
> course I shall do the same for you.
>
>
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