Victor-

>ICQ will still truncate the message after 450 characters if it can't make a direct connection & has to pass the msg though their server.

Very early versions of ICQ had a 450 character limit. Later versions were not limited. Have they now reintroduced the limit?

Updated:

According to http://www.icq.com/features/, messages to offline users are limited to 450 chars, but not to on-line users.