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At the office, we use Yahoo Messenger for communicating with co-workers at our remote office in the US. After successfully logging in to my Y! M, a notification window pop-up with an announcement regarding their “latest exciting feature” called Message History. This feature is related to their earlier announcement of their Web-based IM (flash) application.

So what does this mean for all YM users like me?

The good side - your chat history is available anywhere. After having been into “Laptop” Recovery mode all weekend - and lost all of my YM chat history because of my stupidity - it would have been very good if this Y! Messenger feature was lunched earlier on.

The bad side - your chat history is now owned by Yahoo. Privacy issues anyone?

Expectations, Expectations..

1. Yahoo! Messenger for desktop should fetch or store chat history on Yahoo! Server or Desktop depending on the user preference
2. History-off - allow a user to explicitly turn the Message History off on both party (e.g. I can turn off message archiving for a certain user so that the person I’m talking to cannot save the current conversation).

Other instant messaging platform that offers online message archiving/history (that I use are) are Gmail/Google Talk and Meebo.