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Thanks for your comment. &nbsp;I see what you mean. &nbsp;The pull strategy simplifies things too, such as getting through firewalls. &nbsp;This strategy would imply that initial contact with another individual could take just short of 30 seconds, since the &quot;conversation&quot; would not start until the target person's computer polled Yahoo. &nbsp;Once the conversation is begun, some other mechanism must start, otherwise replies would be pretty slow. &nbsp;I don't use IM, so I am pretty dumb about it.<br />
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I guess I was concerned that the IM program was polling twice a minute just to keep the &quot;buddy list&quot; status up to date, which would be a waste. &nbsp;I once had an email user that had set Outlook to poll once a minute because he was paranoid about getting his email as fast as possible.<br />
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Thanks again.<br />
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Ron
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Thanks for your comment.  I see what you mean.  The pull strategy simplifies things too, such as getting through firewalls.  This strategy would imply that initial contact with another individual could take just short of 30 seconds, since the "conversation" would not start until the target person's computer polled Yahoo.  Once the conversation is begun, some other mechanism must start, otherwise replies would be pretty slow.  I don't use IM, so I am pretty dumb about it.

I guess I was concerned that the IM program was polling twice a minute just to keep the "buddy list" status up to date, which would be a waste.  I once had an email user that had set Outlook to poll once a minute because he was paranoid about getting his email as fast as possible.

Thanks again.

Ron

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im guilty of the once a minute outlook
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I have a user running Yahoo Messenger, which is OK. &nbsp;But, Yahoo Messenger is contacting a Yahoo server every 30 seconds. &nbsp;What is it doing? &nbsp;Is it necessary to the operation of the program, or is there a setting that is causing this? &nbsp;I ran an internet usage report from SurfControl on management request, and they asked what was going on.
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I have a user running Yahoo Messenger, which is OK.  But, Yahoo Messenger is contacting a Yahoo server every 30 seconds.  What is it doing?  Is it necessary to the operation of the program, or is there a setting that is causing this?  I ran an internet usage report from SurfControl on management request, and they asked what was going on.

Why is Yahoo Messenger contacting a server every 30 sec?

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