Thank you bobmac. I was wondering if the folks here only used yahoo to im or pm and freecall. Yahoo chat has been a very nice place to meet people and listen to music and interesting conversations. The bots were very annoying but not intolerable. Now rooms are inaccessible. so what is the better alternative…. room with bot or no room? Yahoo messenger was the PREMIER chat for me. I’m not a geek, just a chatter and am glad that Yahoo seems to be looking out for us. The end result seems to be against chatters at the moment though. I can only hope that the folks that run Yahoo can do right for the few that do like to chat in the rooms.