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MSN Messenger engages in censorship...

03 06 07 - 23:07 You'd expect that someone like me wouldn't want to use something like MSN. For some very good reasons such as the fact that it is unreliable, and unencrypted. (Jabber all the way :D). But there are times, and not everyone has or knows what Jabber is, or why exactly it's better.

For your benefit, avoid mentioning any of the following strings in a MSN message. The message will be silently dropped for no reason in particular. (Unless you are not using the official MSN client, in which case you get an error message saying the message was dropped.)

1. download.php
2. .scr
3. .pif
4. profile.php?
5. gallery.php

For some reason 4 only works with the ? there.

There was some talk about www.scroogle.org being banned, a while ago. It's not itself a banned word, but take a look at item 2 on the list :)

Also, you used to be able to make a groupchat disappear by saying one of these. Doesn't work any more (only ejects you from it, not everyone. Fun while it lasted though :)