Yahoo Chat is dead. First, they have this major BOT infestation in 2005. Then, to combat that, they make a majot change to signin rules, requiring one to enter an encrypted code. Along with some major difficulties with users being able to sign in, what that caused is a general drop in user activity. Those who were able to endure that challenge and prevail, were meet by a gang of rude Scottish hackers, and other antagonistic hoodlums. But now whenever I sign in to a Yahoo chatroom, all I see is the moderator (another Yahell innovation for anti-bot). No familiar freinds roost there, no strangers either. Alas, Yahoo! chat rooms have become a thing of the past, much like the ARPANET. Oh well.