>Raj Shekhar wrote: > Officially, the reason for changing the Y! protocol is that they want to keep out the spammers from flooding the users. (The spamming on IMs is known as spim). Unofficially, most conspiracy theory people suspect that Y! wants to shut out trillian from using the Y! network. (I am a believer in this theory)
But why would they? The yahoo client is free (as in beer), it doesn't serve ads and the value of yahoo's network is directly proportional to the number of yahoo users. It doesn't make financial sense to block users. > Y! changed its protocol a few days back. Within 24 hours, the gaim and trillian hackers had reverse engineered the new protocol, and had the code checked in the CVS. In around 36-48 hours they had put out the RPMs and SRPMs for the new client. So such measure *cannot* block Trillian users. Everyone knows that and I am sure Yahoo does too. > Interestingly, MSN has been quite well behaved in this matter. They have not changed their protocol in the last six months at least. Which leads to the most convincing argument of them all - if their were some sneaky monetary benefit to be derived from changing the protocol, I'm sure the Microsofties would have done it ages ago. - AJ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
