This is what I put down for first draft. Any improvement is welcome I don't know what a petition looks like. But I think if I put down what I feel and what I want, it should be good enough.
To Yahoo, Subject: Availability of Yahoo mesenger on multiple platforms We are part of happy user community of yahoo, thanks to it's quality of service and open standards conformance. Yahoo messenger is one IM application that we use extensively and find it suitable for our needs. It serves our requirements well. For long time, we have been using yahoo messenger clients developed as open source applications. There are multiple such clients which has worked well. Unfortunately for past few days, we are not able to use yahoo IM service. We believe it's due to change in yahoo IM protocol. A particular area of interest is authentication. We find that yahoo does not allow requests from older protocol clients any more. We request you to maintain the availability of yahoo service to users who are not on Microsoft Windows platform. We view availability of yahoo protocol as a simplest method to ensure that third party clients continue to inetoperate with yahoo service. Since people want to use different clients to suit their particular need and features available and it would be an increasing burdon for yahoo to entertain mariad of platforms, opening protocol would be the quickest step to ensure service availability. Some areas of protocol are of immediate interests are authentication, text/file transfer and conference. We know that yahoo ships unix clients for RedHat/Debian linux. However people prefer some other choices for various reasons. E.g. easy integration with window manager of their choice or a simple text based client for quick conversation. We ceratinly don't expect yahoo to cater to all possible combinations for free of cost. Looking forward for a positive response. Linux community. India Shridhar On 5 Apr 2002 at 12:09, radical wrote: > Allrite, so whoz gonna draft the petition? or atleast help out with it? > Send me points/stuff that u wanna write in it.. _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
