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Yahoo for some reason or another has brought back @rocketmail and has also added @ymail to their service. Rocketmail has been around forever and went away for a little while. Maybe it is just some sort of marketing ploy to say hey come look at what we brought back.

In any account you can create names with @rocketmail and sign into yahoo messenger with them. So for all you elite name types, go create some new ids before they are gone. Here is the post from the Yahoo Messenger Blog regarding the new Yahoo! IDs.

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Has the messenger team pulled the plug for the 7.1 version of messenger? I am getting reports from various sources, that they simply can not login to the messenger service.  I remember reading that Yahoo! will be dropping support for older clients, in a push to get people on the new 9.0 beta or the vista beta.
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The Yahoo! Messenger Vista team have been listening to your feedback and have responded with a blog entry. Josh the senior product manager of the Vista team has given a bit of a weather report regarding some of the features they have been working on. And as always they are encouraging more feedback and ideas.

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Yesterday the good folks over at Yahoo! have finally implimented changes in the overwhelming bot presence in chat rooms. They have introducted a captcha system to allow users into the room.

Here is an excerpt from the Yahoo! Messenger Blog,

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The Yahoo messenger team has rolled out some bug fixes for the chat problems, and information disclosure bug. Although to some extent, I think it was more relevant showing registration info than profile info, but that’s just me. Read below for the official word from Yahoo, courtesy of Sarah Bacon.

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Over the past year, Yahoo! has come under some serious fire for letting their chat rooms go to hell. The public chat rooms are now rampant with bots. I challenge you to enter a chat room and not find a single bot.

In hopes to combat this very serious problem Yahoo! has been working on their backend. They recently installed some patches and fixes for the join room times. These fixes for the most part wen’t well. Joining a chatroom is now quicker than ever but now you can’t really enter the room you want to enter, you get bumped to another available room in the same category.
This certainly puts a damper on your chat experience especially if you are like me and visit a single room and generally stay in that room. Yahoo! is working on a fix and is still working on more updates regarding the bot problem.
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According to Sarah Bacon the Yahoo! Messenger Product Manager;

An important security update is now available for users of Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 on Windows. It is strongly suggested that all users download and install the latest version (8.1.0.416) that includes this update.

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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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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