I, and a friend of mine both experienced the same problem. And just now, about a week after I recovered my password, I received that 989: 17 error with naim. (the password before was only 7 lowercase characters... easily crackable, i guess. my *new* one was far from easy to crack.)
I'm paranoid enough to think that this is all done intentionally by AIM, just to be sure their users are showered with advertisements (in other words, force them to use "official" clients. the same thing happened to a friend of mine who uses *gaim* ... another third-party client... and his account was even mysteriously suspended 2 times before the password was changed, and he had to create a new screen name.)
I'll talk around with some more people about this, it's very interesting.
if this nonsense keeps up, I'm going to see if i can switch to a different protocol (ICQ isn't *quite* aim.. so maybe that would work, or maybe "jabber"-- i've heard of it.)
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branchandroot
Re: I'm seeing the same thing with naim
Date: 2005-05-08 08:50 pm (UTC)I'm paranoid enough to think that this is all done intentionally by AIM, just to be sure their users are showered with advertisements (in other words, force them to use "official" clients. the same thing happened to a friend of mine who uses *gaim* ... another third-party client... and his account was even mysteriously suspended 2 times before the password was changed, and he had to create a new screen name.)
I'll talk around with some more people about this, it's very interesting.
if this nonsense keeps up, I'm going to see if i can switch to a different protocol (ICQ isn't *quite* aim.. so maybe that would work, or maybe "jabber"-- i've heard of it.)
please, i want to hear more horror stories!
-louman (aim: waifkorcroks *or* loumanpro)