This is another of my favorite things to do.  I chat on ICQ a lot and have been a member for a long time... my number is in the 700,000's which confuses some people who insist, "your number is messed up, it's missing a couple digits".   Usually those people who are so easily consused are those who joined after the ten million mark.   I have around 200 people on my active list and over 350 in my address book, my history has well over 33,000 entries, which makes my DB folder a whopping 20 megs in size.   It takes quite a while to fix my database with DBConvert, and every time it shaves off about half a meg of wasted bytes.  Most recently, I gained several people on my list from my previous college.  Due to the fact that everyone had a laptop, ICQ ended up on most of them.  Because of this, I now operate a small notify ring for when McAfee Virus DAT updates come out, along with new versions of ICQ, AIM, Winamp, and other things.   Generally, if I'm on-line, I'm on ICQ.  On a side note:  No, I am never N/A or Away, I purposely turned off the idle timers.