Re: [SLUG] YahooIM Protocol

[Gavin Carr <gavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:58:55PM +1000, James Gray wrote:
> Quick question.  Has Yahoo changed their IM protocol?

Yep. There was a slashdot thread discussing it a week ago:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/17/2358240&mode=thread&tid=185&tid=187

> I've worked around it by downloading the Yahoo Linux 
> (http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/download/unix.html) client and it's 
> working (complete with banner ads and other nastyness!).  However, I 
> preferred my single jabber client (Psi) being able to access all my IM 
> accounts.  Yes I know about "EveryBuddy" and other all-in-one clients, but 
> the other reason I'm running a jabber server is simply because it's open 
> (as in the Jabber protocol is an open source/standard).  

Well, both Everybuddy (ayttm) and Gaim stopped working too. Apparently Gaim 0.69 
works - I'm just compiling it up now. 

Cheers,
Gavin

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