Way back when I had Messenger 6.0 I came across a fairly unique add-on to Yahoo! Messenger that added the "join user in chat" function that was taken away in the migration from 5.0 to 6.0. The program simply consisted of a file that replaced a Yahoo! DLL and re-enabled the join user in chat function. Once I upgraded to 7.0 the program of course did not work and I started my search for a replacment. At long last I have found it and not only does it add the join user in chat, it also adds view webcam and much more that has been missing since the days of 5.0. The add-on is called Yahoo Messenger 7.0 Menu Update 3.5 and is discussed at WackyB [http://www.wackyb.com/zzub/index.php?showtopic=7835]. The executible is mirrored at Jesters Jungle [http://galileo.spaceports.com/~jester26/yahoo.html] Thank you very much vb_packets for such a fine program and thank you even more for sharing it with the world.

A secondary program that may be of use to some is Yahoo Multi Login for 7.0.0.437 [http://www.wackyb.com/zzub/index.php?showtopic=8587], mirror at Jesters Jungle [http://galileo.spaceports.com/~jester26/yahoo.html]. This program, as the name implies, will allow you to run more than one instance of Yahoo! Messenger at a time.

In other news it is rumored that Yahoo! Messenger 7.0 brings a new protocol with it. The default standard is YMSG12 but 7.0 is YMSG13. I have just been too lazy to confirm or invistigate this myself. When the latest Messenger come out one of my first thoughts was "I wonder if this has a new protocol?" 7.0 behaves so much like 6.0 that I did not give it a second thought. I came across a thread at http://bot-depot.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=48425& which showed that apparently there is a new YMSG13. Very minor changes are made to YMSG12 and apparently the change was brought about because of the new voice features. This will require more investigation indeed.