no more blogsbot on yahoo?

it sounds like yahoo is retiring the old version of the instant messenger protocol, which may mean that the Net::YMSG package used by the blo.gs bot that relays info on updated blogs to yahoo! instant messenger users will stop working. (if it was working at all.)

meanwhile, the aim bot is still flaky, but i think i may have found the root of the problem, and am now figuring out how to fix it. (it takes a while for the problem to occur, so debugging and testing is slow).