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	The ICQ ActiveList

ICQ version 99b comes with a new and exciting feature, the ICQ ActiveList. Now you can create or join ICQ communities based on a common interest and easily access them from your ICQ program. In addition to your original Contact List, you may open your chosen or personally created Lists and communicate with your friends or associates.

Once you join an ActiveList you get cool window features and a whole lot of possibilities. You can broadcast and recieve events to all the List's members, post and view news, view information and configure your preferences.

You can also become an ActiveList owner, which gives you total control over the List. You can delegate authority to any member of your List. In order to run your own ActiveList you need to

download the ActiveList server to your computer

Figure 1: Connecting to the ActiveLists:

At the top of the ICQ window is the new ActiveList button, which makes your ActiveLists visible.

Now you can find an ActiveList to subscribe to.

Figure2: From the Services menu, select ICQ Active List.
You have the option to Find an Active List, or Show the Active Lists you are subscribed to.

After you have found a list, and added it, the bottom part of your ICQ should look like this:

Figure 3: When Active Lists are visible, you see them at the bottom part of the ICQ Window. The two buttons at the top select what you will see in the upper part of the window - your regular Contact List, or one of the Active Lists' contact-list. Here I am subscribed to 4 Active Lists, two of them are currently online (painted blue), and two are currently offline (painted red). I am not connected to neither of the online groups (the ball is red).

Congratulations! You logged into the ActiveList, and as stated in the previous page, you chose to view the ActiveList in place of your Contact List:

Figure 4: The ICQ window: once the ActiveList button is selected, you view the ActiveLists rather than the regular Contact List. Two lists are currently online, and to one of them I am actually connected (Green Ball). The names above are members of my ActiveLists, not members of the Contact List.

To learn more about ICQ ActiveList read the help files located through your ICQ client:

Click the ICQ button.
Select Help.
Choose Help Topics.
Click ICQ ActiveList and browse through the titles to the topic of your choice.

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