If he has friends who use ICQ then he will need ICQ in order to chat
with them. Otherwise maybe not. ICQ can be fun but IRC is a much
broader chat network.
--
James E. Morrow
Email to: jamese...@email.com
Thanks to ICQ I found people with specific interests, living in a
definate place, expert about a specific matter, and so on..
For explampe, try to find someone who like salmon flyfishing in
Norway. With ICQ I did and I got very useful help.
Can you do that with the programms you mentioned?
As far I know, no other chat programm allow so detailed search among
users!