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AIM Fight Checker

There's this new website called AIM Fight where you can check the popularity of your AIM nick. The site checks the buddy lists of all AIM users and calculates a score from the number of users that added you to your buddy list. A better description can be found on that site.

Here's a small C# 2005 Application which can be used to check nicks at a given time interval. As a bonus the history of all scores is displayed in a line chart (which was generated using the extremely awesome ZedGraph library).

99% of you probably won't be able to run it because it requires the .NET 2005 Beta Framework which hardly anyone has installed yet.

Click here if you still want to download the program including the C# source code.
Click here to see a screenshot of the program.

Oh yeah, you need to wait for 3 updates (= 9 minutes) until the chart starts looking good.

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Bob Barnes on :

Let me first start by saying i like the project.

Now i have another use for your project depending on the answer to my question. I'm pretty sure the answer is no because no one is really that dumb even Aol but here it is. When you call AOL and send it the two screen names what do you get back? I'm assuming its just a number but if its a list of names then you could really expose a serious flaw.

Just something to think about.

sp on :

Hi,

the answer is indeed no. The answer you receive from the AOL server is (unfortunately) a number.

Bob Barnes on :

Yeah i thought that was the case and when i thought through it the answer was clearly no. No one would let you query thier database, even aol. Well thanks for the speedy response

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