Yahoo to change protocol often in effort to thwart Trillian users |
I understand the irritation over the whole Instant Message (IM) spam thing, but what about the Trillian users who want to use the client to save time? This Yahoo move seems short sighted. I would think these other companies could work together with Trillian in locking down these spammers. 
Yahoo said it will continue changing its protocols to prevent clients such as Trillian from finding new ways to incorporate Yahoo. Again, the measure was cited by Yahoo as a way to prevent IM spam.
It is disturbing, however, that this article further notes that Trillian “didn’t respond” to its inquiries. If this is true, this isn’t keeping the lines of communication open.
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that’s a real pain. why does it matter if we want to use Trillian? Yahoo IM sucks and as long as we have a Yahoo! passoprt it doesn’t matter. Most Yahoo! users use Yahoo! for the sole purpose ov IM chatting anyway, and if they can’t make a compitant IM-er then that’s not really our fault.
Comment by Róbb — June 24, 2004 @ 2:15 pm PST
People still use Yahoo! IM???
Comment by Crush — June 26, 2004 @ 11:18 pm PST