[NTLUG:Discuss] ymessenger

[MadHat]

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 00:09, Vaidya, Harshal (Cognizant) wrote:
> Yeah, there is been a protocol change. I read it over some news site few
> weeks ago. I think the change took effect before a couple of days. If I
> remember correct, 23rd sept. 
> 
> This change was to block all the other messengers which offer "one IM
> for all" solutions. For eg gaim,jabber are a couple of IM's which offer
> connectivity to all the other IM services including Yahoo and MSN. 
> 
> Due to these messengers Yahoo was having serious revenue losses ( at
> least this is what they mentioned on the site). The next version of
> Yahoo is coming with a new protocol which will be completely
> incompatible with the older protocol versions. They believe that this
> will drive away all the other messengers from connecting to their
> service. 
> 
> Anybody using the older version of Yahoo will be automatically
> disconnected off the Yahoo network due to protocol incompatibility. They
> must download the latest version.
> 
> To add to that they also mentioned that they would first release the
> Windows version and then the UniX's version.
> 
> I think you will have to wait for that UNIX one.
> 

Interesting information.  Got a URL?

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