[PLUG] GAIM and MSN

AthlonRob AthlonRob at axpr.net
Tue Oct 21 19:27:01 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 10:07, Jason Van Clere wrote:
> Thus spoke AthlonRob, on Mon, 20 Oct 2003 22:06:24 -0700:
> 
> > Yes, I haven't had any issues with it since the protocol change.
> 
> Which change was that?  I read the other day that M$ has just "disabled" the use of non-MSN clients.

Microsoft is going to (or did?) remove support for non-MSNv9 protocol
clients to connect.  The new protocol uses SSL, for one thing.

GAIM has had support for the new protocol since version 0.69 or 0.68, (I
forget which) which was rushed out the door when Yahoo's protocol change
locked everybody out of Yahoo.

Non-MSN clients are still able to connect if they figured out the new
protocol, I'm logged in under two MSN IDs right now (geesh, I wish I
could talk everybody in to jabber!)...

Rob





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