yahoo messenger

[Seth Kingsley]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 03:09:44PM +1000, Anthony Carmody wrote:
> I have heard rumours [gasp] that MSN and Yahoo are on a crusade to block third party clients using their transport. i don't know the
> weight of this in truth, but i must say that everyone i know who uses IM uses a third party client primarily to avoid Ads and such.
> I use gaim myself. perhaps its the company i keep.

AOL is also on this crusade, trying to shake off Trillian in early 2002:

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50169,00.html

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