Add Yahoo buddy to MSN protocol

[David Woolley]

Computer Tech wrote:
> *How do I add a _Yahoo_ buddy to my _MSN_ protocol without opening a 
> Yahoo account?*

I suspect that you will have to add them with an official, or other 
supported client.  It is very unlikely that Microsoft will ever consider 
Pidgin a supported client.

Adding the feature will cause "layering" issues for Pidgin, as it could 
mean extending MSN specific features into the protocol independent user 
interface.

What would probably help is if you could provide a legal copy of the 
relevant protocol specification document (which I suspect is impossible, 
as I don't believe that Microsoft would give permission for such use) or 
you could provide detailed reverse engineering details on the protocol 
exchanges when the official client adds such a buddy.

(I haven't checked the latest sourced code, but a relatively recent 
version only seems to use MSN_NETWORK_YAHOO in comparison contexts, and 
I suspect it would have to assign it to something if it had any support 
for adding Yahoo buddies to MSN servers.)


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