Adium

Well - Adium could still work, unless they change how the yahoo messenger protocol interacts. But even with Adium, you'd only be able to go certifiably to version 1.0.6.

Just thought of something else -- the life of your G3 can be lengthened and remain compatible with many modern programs and protocols... the catch is you have to give up OS X. Many Linux distros release PowerPC-compatible ISO images that can natively boot and install on New World Macintosh computers (later iMac G3s, iBooks, PowerMac G4 series, etc.). Pidgin is a wonderful IM...

You can test this out and see if it's the same for you by creating a new, temporary user account, launching Adium under that new account, and putting in your credentials for Yahoo! ...

namely, when Adium expires, can I save my contacts list to a file so that they're not all lost? ...

if the protocol version that Adium uses for Yahoo! is going to expire, no one but the authors of the Adium software can fix that. If and when they do fix it, you will download a new version of the Adium client and be on your merry way. ...

I just got a message from Adium that says my Yahoo! Messenger version will expire in August and to download the newest version, go to blah, blah. ...

This is certainly not likely -- applications do not access the hard drive by name. If they did, downloadable programs in disk image format that include a link to the Applications folder (you've seen them: Adium is a good example -- it includes the Adium application and a link to the /Applications folder on the disk image itself) wouldn't work at all, because how could the...

Have you tried using aMSN or Adium? Both support the MSN Messenger protocol and they might have support for your language. http://adium.im/ http://www.amsn-project.net/download.php

Have you tried using Adium or aMSN instead of the Messenger for Mac? ...

Hello, I have Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6 up to date and since few days, the DNS resolution is very slow, about 5 seconds to resolve names. For example : # ping test.com (wait 5 seconds) PING test.com (205.178.152.103): 56 data bytes