Yahoo not transmitting messages from Gaim?

[Keith Godat]

This has consistently been a problem for third party instant messaging 
clients.  For the time being I would recommend just switching over to 
something other than yahoo.  Jabber 
<http://www.jabber.org/about/overview.shtml> is a good FOSS option, and 
you can access that in Gaim.  http://www.jabber.org/about/overview.shtml

Adam Funk wrote:
> 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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