[Pidgin] #8198: Pidgin client blocked by AOL (ICQ)

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#8198: Pidgin client blocked by AOL (ICQ)
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 Reporter:  init    |        Owner:  MarkDoliner
     Type:  defect  |       Status:  new        
Milestone:          |    Component:  ICQ        
  Version:  2.5.4   |   Resolution:             
 Keywords:          |  
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Comment(by deryni):

 The question isn't whether the patch fixes the problem, the question is
 what the actual problem is, what this fix is doing, and whether it is the
 correct fix.

  * Does anyone here actually know what these magic values are?
  * Do we know where they came from?
  * Do we know what they are doing?
  * Do we know what happened to cause this in the first place?
  * Do we know why only Russia and the Ukraine have this problem?
  * Do we know why some people have seemed to claim that they started
 working again without the patch?

 Without knowing a number of those things we can't (safely and comfortably)
 make such a change.

 A few more questions:
  * Has anyone *not* experiencing this problem tried the change to verify
 that it doesn't break anything?
  * Have people made sure this change doesn't break any features of ICQ?

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8198#comment:78>
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