But Daniel wrote:
Ok folk, so far it appears that it’s literally something server side on the russian/ukraine/etc ICQ servers that’s causing this. The Pidgin folk are pretty insistent that there’s nothing that can do about it, and that it just needs to be waited out. Considering the -real- ICQ clients can connect, I’m not entirely sure I buy that, but we’ll see. If it’s still going on when I’m done with work I’ll try to test some things with a real ICQ client and see if I can’t come up with a tweak. The problem again is, I can’t reproduce it from here (in the USA) and so I won’t know if my fix accomplishes anything. =/ My only thought at the moment is if there’s some particular person who’s seeing this and is willing to work with me “live” to try some things tonight (tonight my time, no idea what that is across the globe) I can try some patches and run them by you. Let me know. I’m GMT-5. Also my XMPP address is daniel at vorpalcloud.org.