On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Binand Raj S. wrote: > Incidentally, kyim stopped connecting to Yahoo ever since the new > messenger came out. I'd like to know what your experience with > publicly available messenger software is (gtkyahoo, everybuddy etc.).
Yahoo switched to a new protocol quite some time ago, but they hadn't yet rewritten their clients for non Windows OSen. Yesterday they finished upgrading all their clients and stopped supporting older protocols. They haven't stopped supporting in the conventional sense of rejecting packets, instead, they send you a packet every two seconds telling you to upgrade. Login works with everybuddy, but you're damned if you login successfully. Those 2 second packets work out to be a pretty good denial of service attack. It makes eb extremely slow. You have to put the system account on your block senders list as well. don't know if other clients work. gaim doesn't. I'm trying to fix the eb library for yahoo. -- Speak the truth. That is always much easier, and is often the most powerful argument. -Bene Gesserit Axiom _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
