[Gllug] [OT] yahoo messenger...

[Richard Cohen]

On 29/03/06, Geo. <caparo.g at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 March 2006 18:30, Alan Pope wrote:
> > On 28/03/06, Emon <contact_emon at gawab.com> wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > Any idea why Yahoo is neglecting all those *nix users out there? I mean
> > > the last they released a messenger was for RedHat9 and that's about it!!
> > > I know that there are alternatives like Gaim & others, but they don't
> > > seem to support all the features :( & it seems that Yahoo doesn't care
> > > either... any idea why??
> >
> > Lack of demand?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Al.
> Err maybe Yahoo are like Google pretty clueless about customer support.
>
>  Taken 6 tries so far to get them to acknowledge they have a problem with
> their web based mail service & their POP3 account service re-naming the
> domain from Gmail.com  to googlemail.com here in the UK
> --
> TTFN
>    Caparo

Uh...  I think you'd find, with a little research, that Google have
been legally compelled to do that since someone else was already using
the gmail name in the UK and got a bit pissed off (in a
taking-to-court sense) when Google tried to nick their name.  The
'other' gmail isn't a public webmail service, but some sort of
financial newsletter/notification service, but still, the name is the
same and the service was considered close enough for Google to drop
the gmail name in the UK.  The same applies in Germany, AFAIK.

Cheers
Richard
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