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Have you ever tried it? I've had multi-person chats going in ICQ and it works very well when it's set to IRC-style.
Simply start a chat session with somebody (right click on their name and select "ICQ Chat", then drag other users' names from the ICQ list onto the chat window.
Yes, I have tried it, and exactly because of the steps you need to do (open a chat session with somebody and then drag the users into the window) it drove me nuts. You always have to have a copy of your contacts somewhere (I lost them several times and rebuilding was ugly - I know there are tools but that there are extra tools for such simple functionality is not a compliment for the ICQ client) and you manually have to setup a chat.
On IRC, people just join, that's it. You idle if you want to and everybody is able to see that. With ICQ, you always have to ask "is xyz there" etc etc.
Nah, I don't want to go on bashing ICQ. :)
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