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pyre on April 5, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why TCP Over TCP Is A Bad Idea

Interestingly enough, in the opposite direction. ICQ chose to do their protocol over UDP, but basically re-implemented TCP into their protocol.

muppetman on April 5, 2011 | [–]

In the old days (I'm thinking using the Miranda client especially) you could disable this confirmation though. Made sending messages very fast, but you never knew _for sure_ that your recipient got them.

Alas poor ICQ, it was so fantastic (it's how I met my wife)

mukyu on April 5, 2011 | [–]

That isn't surprising or at all uncommon.

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