Re: Yahoo did it again!

Alan Humpherys <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.fire.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Antagonizing Yahoo directly is not the best way to endear them to us.  
We will continue the cat and mouse game and eventually wear them down 
;)

Alan

On Jun 24, 2004, at 7:52 AM, adam wrote:

> Any idea as to when we'll be able to yahoo via Fire again??
>
> It's really shitty of yahoo to do this when all it does is piss people 
> off. IF I had to use the yahoo software, I'd delete my client id 
> completely and just use the others that I have.
>
> Who do we yell at for doing this to us?
>
> On Jun 23, 2004, at 10:43 PM, Alan Humpherys wrote:
>
>> Because they LOVE us so much, Yahoo has changed their protocol again 
>> this evening to keep third party IM clients from being able to 
>> connect. This change appears to affect every third party IM client in 
>> existence  (Fire, Gaim, Adium, Trillian, Proteus, Kopete, Miranda)
>>
>> Here is an interesting article on what yahoo has done:
>>
>> http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5245821.html?tag=nefd.top
>>
>> Anything you can do to let yahoo know of your displeasure would be 
>> appreciated - as long as it is legal.
>>
>> So be patient with us as we play the cat and mouse game again with 
>> them for the fourth time in 6 months.
>>
>> Alan
>> ------
>> Alan Humpherys
>> Fire Development Team
>> http://fire.sf.net
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