Yahoo's too complicated a protocol. AOL instant messenger might be workable though.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Jonathan Marsden > Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 5:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SA-list] MSN alert > > > Looks like the first step in Microsoft's move to charge for the MSN > messenger service...why else would they change it and not share > code?...well, there is still ICQ. Dirk, does yahoo have anything > that might > be roughly equivalent? > > Jon > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx > Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 4:42 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SA-list] MSN alert > > > Hi, > > Probably some of you already read/heard the news from Microsoft. From Oct > 15th on, clients using older versions of the MSN protocol will no > longer be > able to be used. Unfortunatly Servers Alive still uses the MSN protocol > version 7 (like most 3rd party clients do). We hope to have a technical > solution by then, still the legal part of it is not clear. > According to Sean > Sundwall (a Microsoft spokesman): > "It is our expectation that those who use our service with unlicensed or > unauthorized third-party clients will likely not be able to log on after > Oct. 15," Sundwall said. "We would encourage those third parties > to contact > us to work out agreements by which they can continue to have > their customers > access our network." > > > Apparently MS wants us to make some kind of agreement with them > over the use > of the MSN network, however they are not giving any info on how > to get this > agreement. > > > We will keep you posted on how this will continue.... > > > > > > > > dirk. > > > > > To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > With the following in the body of the message: > unsubscribe SAlive > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 8/22/2003 > Tested on: 8/22/2003 5:22:44 PM > avast! is copyright (c) 2000-2003 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > With the following in the body of the message: > unsubscribe SAlive > To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
