Beginning at about 6 p.m. Wednesday, Yahoo changed its instant messaging language to prevent third-party services, such as Trillian, from accessing its service. Like previous statements, the company said the block is meant as a pre-emptive measure against spammers from its Yahoo Messenger service.
“Spammers are being aided by entities that are abusing our systems, where they effortlessly gain knowledge of pathways and back-alley access to send spam,” Yahoo spokeswoman Mary Osako said.
Cheers Yahoo… I have many contacts on all the message systems which means that I use a decent IM tool like trillian to get to them all at once… it woudl be nice to stop spam using coded work rounds, not real applications like trillian…
So sorry to all my Yahoo buddies… the number you are calling is temporarily out of service…
source: ZDNET
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