gaim: protocol not supported

[Jim Skehill]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/16/0253253&mode=thread&tid=109&tid=
185&tid=187

As explained in the above link "October 15th is the day Microsoft set to ban
third party clients from logging in to their IM service."
I think your problem is related to this action by M$.


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Aitken [mailto:aitken-BwLjziHGQLusTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 5:25 AM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: gaim: protocol not supported


Jing Su wrote:

> Did you upgrade to the .71 release?

[chris at p166 chris]$ rpm -q gaim
gaim-0.53-1

> I think it's a bug in that release.
> I was unable to get online with that one as well.  I'm running the .67 and
> I'm still online on gaim right now, no problem.

OK, I'll see if I have a newer version on a CD somewhere.

>
> Also, M$ has ominously threatened to kick off all non-MSN .NET clients,
> but as far as I can tell, hasn't made good on the threat yet.

Wow.

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