From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amin Subject: Re: MSN Messenger clones keep failing Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 21:34:57 +0600 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FA7C721.9010507@siriusbb.com> References: <3FA79E82.3080204@siriusbb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org James Miller (office) wrote: > > Well, I don't have direct experience with any of those clients, nor with > trying to chat on MSN from Linux. But I do read some computer news, and > have seen articles recently (within the last month?) that talk about an > impending M$ plan to cut off their network from other chat clients. I > understood that this was to apply to all non-M$ clients as well as to > earlier versions of M$'s client as well. Maybe this explains the trouble > you're having? > > James This seems likely. The latest version of one of the clones I use tells me that MSN Messenger is using a new protocol and new security, something about SSL, and would I like to download a small patch to handle this? I said yes, and got the patch ... but even that seems to be a little behind the curve. Well then it's back to good ol' Yahoo Messenger for me. Thanks, Yawar Amin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs