Yah00

I chat in Yah00 a lot and seem to have a problem staying in the rooms.Script Kiddies war there a lot ,so is there any way to stop the boots and room floods?

I'm not familiar with Yahoo Chat. Isn't there a way to ignore a user? Also you don't want to get caught returning the favor, so just keep a log of the user name, time, location, and even e-mail address and consistantly send reports of failure to obey Service Contract to the Yahoo Moderator.

We get this alot in the IRC. The best way is to stay out of the rooms that kiddies reside in and keep out of it !

umm i believe that you won't get booted if you logged on to www.yahoo.com java. They can only crash your yahoo messenger.

I haven't found any way to stop them either. I like the idea of stay out of the rooms they frequent, but they seems to go to each room, run their room flood and boot ALMOST everyone.
I would like to know why I am NEVER part of the ALMOST everyone.

Guess it's just something we'll have to deal with if we enjoy chat.

ummm..i dunno abt an answer, but u can get some info abt how yahoo functions on www.smarthack.com, they have a new yahoo info section ..

regs

I used to frequent the Yahoo hacker lounge a long time ago, and almost every other question dealt with "show me how to boot," kiddies actually booting, asking for warez, and the traditional "How do you hack such and such mail server" made me never go back.

While in the rooms I would get the same question as you: How do I keep people from booting me? You really can't on the GUI version, but you cannot go wrong with the Java version... I myself have never been kicked before, cuz I prefer the Java. However, I have heard Java booters, flooders, etc. exist, but never bothered to investigate.

Stick with Java.

I'm assuming Yahoo has an open chat forum, and the "reporting" would really make no difference.

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I'm assuming Yahoo has an open chat forum, and the "reporting" would really make no difference.

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Yep, that's right. There is all kinds of stuff there, including porn bots and no moderation.

there are programs that let u connect to yahoo chat without using yahoo

trillian or sum crap *not paying attension really to what people say* lets u i belive and i know it can connect to AIM and is not subject to all known AIM punters

maybe the same holds for yahoo

Yeap the whole thing is messed up, I used to use yahoo for my chat and pm, but I got so annoying with the everytime logging on getting about 40 messages from Porn bots. Also Booting annoyed me. Also like said above there is rooms for kiddy porn and stuff like that which is not shut down, surely stuff like that breaks the law, even if they are user made rooms some stay open forever, You would think yahoo would shut them down even after I reported it to them, it still goes on.
That said there email service is far better than Hotmail ;-)

True ,one of the best ways to avoid the booters in yah00, I guess is to stay outta the chat.But several there are rather nice to chat with.And i have changed to useing the Java version.Seems to have helped a lot.Thanks to all who gave info that helped.

ok, i chat on yahoo quite a bit, and 1), there are now booters, etc, for java 2) the booters do just go into the room, boot, and leave 3)ignoring a booter doesn't always work because of what's called protocol booters. The only way that i know of to make sure you don't get booted is to log in through Chat 2.0 at the login site, or go to www.lagmaster.net and download ymlite, and use that. if you want voice, use 2.0, because lite doesn't have it, yet