I’ve decided that the time has come to retire my ICQ number. By the end of the month I’m intent on leaving ICQ together, so I’m making people aware of this fact now so that anyone who still wishes to contact me through another method can do so.
If it interests you, here are my reasons for leaving:

1. Increase in spam Over the past couple of weeks I’ve had a marked increase in the amount of spam I’ve been getting over ICQ. I’ve also been getting authorisation requests from various highly-numbered accounts which seem to have been automatically generated by spammers which are also annoying.
2. Lack of use Only 3 people on my buddy list use ICQ exclusively and I honestly can’t remember the last time I spoke to any of them (which probably means never). Most others have sign-ins on other networks which can be used instead.
3. ICQ is compatible with AIM If anyone using ICQ is desperate to contact me then almost all ICQ-compatible clients can also communicate over AOL Instant Messenger. All any ICQ user would need to do is send a message to my AIM account (totalxsiva) instead of my ICQ number.

So if you have my ICQ number on your buddy list and nothing else, you can add my AIM address (totalxsiva), or, if you use a multi-platform client like Trillian or Adium, you can also add my Jabber/Google Talk address (nrturner {at} gmail [dot] com) or my Yahoo! address (nrturneruk). I may even give you my MSN Messenger address if you’re lucky.

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