Yahoo Messenger 8.1 Status Problem - Cut Short to 40 !!!

UPDATE : HERE'S A FIX !!! Kudos to the author !

Yahoo! decides to steal Christmas and cuts the size of the messenger's status down to a inhumane 40 characters, while keeping quiet without making announcements just to see the whole lot of us get sucked up into a turmoil.

Well, who the hell can express anything in the status for 40 characters ?! I can't even put up a proper sentence in it, which is outrageous for a Grammar Nazi like me !!!

To prove that Y! is messing with us :-

(1) Go to your Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache folder.
(2) Find for this file 'system.xml' and open it up with your Notepad

You should see the following lines :-

...max_custom_status>40...

See ?! It's been made official unofficially !!!

Someone ought to knock them some sense into explaining what is the purpose of this underhanded trick. For a big company like them to do something without explaining their actions properly is like a dog trying to pretend to be a rat stealing from the kitchen.