Yahoo not transmitting messages from Gaim?

[wade at wadesmart.com]

10162006 GMT-6

It has been getting worse for a few weeks now.
If you contant yahoo, they will say nothing is wrong - like always.
I have had a LOT of people move over to google chat because of this.

wade

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Yahoo not transmitting messages from Gaim?
> From: Adam Funk <a24061 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Tue, October 17, 2006 6:56 am
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>
> My colleagues and I use Yahoo IM for work.  Lately, a lot of the
> Linux-users among us have had the frequent problem that what we type
> in Gaim doesn't appear on other users' clients --- I've had this
> problem with other people using both the Yahoo client for Windows and
> Gaim on Ubuntu.  And it seems to be getting worse.
>
> Someone said he'd heard a rumour that Yahoo is deliberately
> discriminating against non-Yahoo clients.  Anyone know anything about
> this?
>
> More important, does anyone know a way to get around it?  Is there,
> for example, an equivalent of a user-agent string in Gaim that we
> could spoof?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
>
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