Re: (ASCEND) Broadcast Message to On-Line Users?

[Keith Crabtree <keith@nol.net>]

assuming you had authorization to send them messages, and that they are
even running icq in the first place ;) 

Keith Crabtree
http://www.crabtree.net


On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Phillip Vandry wrote:

> > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Kirk Rogers wrote:
> > 
> > :Hello all,
> > :Is there some way to broadcast messages to users who are currently on-line?
> > :Any clues would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Hrm, what protocol would you recommend. There are a few ways to do it, but
> > only if the client is running that protocol or has that thing enabled. I
> > find email does a good job of broadcasting messages.
> 
> [big hack warning!]
> 
> There's always ICQ. Being fairly popular and UDP based, you could spoof
> mesages from the server to each of the addresses in your dynamic IP pool,
> and, assuming you had collected information on the ports to use ahead of
> time (by sniffing the traffic!), it could work.
> 
> -Phil
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