For those of you using Trillian, the popular IM client which allows you to access multiple other IM clients under one roof, you may have discovered last night you could no longer chat with your Yahoo buddies. This is because Yahoo blocked the Trillian client, and others like it, around 6 p.m. Wednesday, according to News.com. The official reason why they did this? "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.
Translation: use our IM client to chat, or don't bother with us at all. Trillian will most likely figure a work around as they have done before in the past. Yahoo told News.com however they will continue to make it difficult for Trillian and others to get into the system, again saying they wanted to prevent IM spam.
1. This was already fixed before the post even went up... at least for the Pro version of Trillian :)
Get the fix on http://www.trillian.cc
Posted at 5:43AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Jason P