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Interesting But Unsurprising MSN Messenger Censoring.

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Brad:
After getting yet another chain mail letter today from someone on my MSN Messenger contact list, I decides I would add "-Send Me Chain Mail; You Die-" yet for some odd reason it kept refusing my name, after a little bit of fooling around I figured out it was blocking the "Chain Mail" part. I really don't see how anyone could promote a chain mail that well using their nickname. Anyway, I told the people in an IRC chat room about it, and joking said something like "I bet they even block 'Microsoft Sucks'". After trying it out, they had apparently actually blocked it. Fortunately they did block weird chars like "

Calum:
why don't you just use gaim? that way you don't have to fuck around with different clients for different networks, and you don't have to fuck around with microsoft's shitty software either?

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

plus, when you get your ass off that so called 'operating system' microsoft makes, gaim will be available for whatever system you decide to use instead, unlike msn.

[ March 17, 2003: Message edited by: Calum: Member # 81 ]

Brad:
I actually do have GAIM for Windows and use it on the rare occasion I need to talk to someone on AIM, but find it too buggy on Windows to use for MSN all the time. As for chaning OS's, I've been messing around with Linux for over two years now, but I havn't found a distro that I like enough to stick with it for normal desktop use. One problem is my addiction to IRC, and while I realize there are tons of *nix clients, I've become just a little too fond of mIRC. The other problem is my love for playing games, though the game I play the most, is working on a Linux (and Mac) port. There are of course other little things that have turned me off, but I'm going to give Red Hat a try again, and just download 8.0, and am going to be buring it in a few minutes.

Anyway, this topic wasn't about me converting, and me using Microsoft' IM network, it was about their censoring  

flap:
mirc will run under wine in linux.

slave:
Bollocks, XChat is like a million times better than mIrc.  Don't use kSirc though; it's like rimming a horse's ass.

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