diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 824aaa3..95d5acd 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 VDR Plugin 'streamdev' Revision History
 ---------------------------------------
 
+- added preprocessor directive for ancient gcc
 - added Russian translation (thanks to Oleg Roitburd)
 - fixed assignment of externremux.sh's default location (reported by plautze)
 - added French translation (thanks to micky979)
diff --git a/server/connectionVTP.h b/server/connectionVTP.h
index 3acb1a2..452f3ae 100644
--- a/server/connectionVTP.h
+++ b/server/connectionVTP.h
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ class cLSTTHandler;
 
 class cConnectionVTP: public cServerConnection {
 	friend class cLSTEHandler;
-	// if your compiler doesn't understand the following statement
-	// (e.g. gcc 2.x), simply remove it and try again ;-)
+#if !defined __GNUC__ || __GNUC__ >= 3
 	using cServerConnection::Respond;
+#endif
 
 private:
 	cTBSocket                *m_LiveSocket;