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I am writing this post because of a rather heated debate going on over at the Yahoo! Messenger Blog.The general consensus of the comments is that Yahoo! is inundated with way to many SPAM messages and Bots.

This is entirely true and has been true for quite a long time now.

In response to the various posts complaining about Chat being flooded with porn bots and ads, I wrote a quick message about Bayesian spam filtering. For the most part this is the current method for catching E-mail SPAM. I don’t really see a huge problem with porting this over to the YMSG protocol. The problem being that you have to *train* the spam filter to detect what is really spam and what a valid message is.

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The Yahoo! Answers team just released their newest addition to the already fantastic Answers service,Social Networking. Now you can add contacts with similar interests with just a click of the button.

We’ve received a lot of feedback regarding the quality of content on Yahoo! Answers. While we are continuing to find ways to attack trolls, fight spam, and filter and delete abuse on the site, we’ve also learned that a large portion of the complaints surrounding content quality really center around the need to customize and personalize what you see when you visit Answers on a daily basis.

So head on over to Yahoo! Answers!

It’s great fun to change the clothes, backgrounds and accessories on your Avatar. But when you sign out of Messenger, that’s the end of your Avatar until next time, right? Nope! You can display your Avatar on a personal web page, blog or even MySpace page using the handy export tools on the Avatars site.

More information is available on the Yahoo! Messenger Blog and even further indepth directions are available at WackyB

I was recently approached by a friend experiencing a problem with the newest version of Yahoo! Messenger(8.1). She said that everything was working excluding voice in Chat, but the call feature was working. I said well that is interesting, I spent the next 20 minutes trying to debug the software with her to see if it was an old sound driver that needed to be upgraded. But to no avail.

After uninstalling and re-installing the software twice, we decided that it appears to be a problem with
Yahoo! Messenger itself. It was most likely a problem with their yascom.dll file. So
What gives Yahoo! Messenger Team? You say the latest build of messenger is
compatable but apparently it really is not.

Now granted, I am sure they actually know about the problem by now. I am sure other
people with Vista have experienced this problem and sent them a bunch of Tech Support E-mails asking for help. Maybe we should just be patient to get a new build of Yahoo! Messenger, but why claim it to work when it really doesn’t?

Update: We are aware of an issue with Microsoft Windows Vista users not having the ability to utilize the Voice Chat and Voice Conferencing features through Yahoo! Messenger. Please note this does not affect PC to PC calling or Yahoo! Premium Voice services through Yahoo! Messenger. Our engineers are aware of the issue and are attempting to determine the best course of action to resolve this issue. We apologize for any inconveniences this has caused and appreciate your patience while we work to resolve this issue. Yahoo! Customer Care

The following registry hack will create a new folder in your Yahoo! Messenger Install Directory (the default is C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger) the new folder will be Logs.

This will basically log everything that Yahoo! Messenger is doing.
It is really informative and probably wont be of any use to the average user. But for those that are paranoid or just like messing about with programs and such. The install for the register hack is at the bottom of the post.  There is one to enable it and one to disable it.

Enable Log Files

Disable Log Files