Yahoo killed access to their Instant Messenger service from my favorite client, Gaim. So if y’all don’t see me online with Yahoo, that’s the reason. They claim it is to head off spamming problems with their service.
The spam excuse is now going to be like the terrorism excuse is now. “We’re now using biometric signon features in order to fight terrorism …err, spam.”
At least, for a little while…. The developers at Cerulean Studios are used to this sort of treatment from those Yahoos (they cut off Trillian several times last fall, too). CS has released Patch I to bypass the lockout, as well as version 2.013 of Trillian Pro. It works fine now! 😛
Gaim 0.79 was just released, and it can now bypass Yahoo’s lockout.