Brain-dead Solution of the Decade
Deepak discovered the reason for the frequent, mysterious disappearance of URLs on YM.
It certainly seems to be true. If the first message (after a while) is a URL, it gets blocked. The problem with this is the annoyance factor since most times you wouldn’t realise that the URL hasn’t reached the other end. So after sending a URL, you’ll have to follow it up with a query whether it was received. For me, it’d be better if they block all URLs. I’d then look for other ways of sharing URLs rather than having to run a manual SYN-ACK over YM.
Funnily though, all you need to do is precede the URL with a text message for the URL to go through. How long does Yahoo think it takes for a spammer to figure that out? This is without doubt the most ridiculous solution of the decade.
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