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reply Tom <ihate spam.com> writes:
Hi everybody. Sorry about the noise but I wish to know about your 
opinions on the next.

 From time to time, I use MSN protocol for communicating because, at 
least here in Argentina, it's the most popular client for the common of 
Argentine guys and girls. Not that I consider myself one of them :P, but 
to be online with the most of my not-nerd friends, I have no choice 
other than use the protocol.

Maybe this isn't new to everybody, but it was for me today as it can be 
to someone else.

Today I've read some mail I receive daily from a mailing list of CS 
Students of the University where I study (UBA), warning everyone of a 
not-very-honest behavior of the MS people in what concerns to their 
client/protocol "MSN Messenger". They do filter messages that contain 
certain words, apparently from web pages that offers some services which 
makes competition to them (I guess). I've made the test myself with the 
word "subitufoto". This is a web page that offers photo upload for free 
(www.subitufoto.com.ar). When the word "subitufoto" appears in some 
message it is apparently sent but currently not received by the other 
peer. I may be naive but this can't be just a bug, can it?
We never know what other words are being filtered/recorded/etc but this 
sucks!

This makes me distrust profoundly of MSN from now on (not in the sense 
of confidentiality which it naturally lacks). I don't know if this is 
something geographically dependent (i.e. only specific for some 
countries or languages), but I've certainly tested it and it's the bare 
and sad true.

Does anyone know something on the subject?

Regards,
-- 
Tom;
Apr 07 2006
parent reply Jan Knepper <jan smartsoft.us> writes:
Would not know if this is true, but just for this reason I use Y!, AIM, 
Google Talk, and IRC...
Than Trillian Pro www.trillian.cc as client which as a SECURE option of 
AIM...

Jan



Tom wrote:

 Hi everybody. Sorry about the noise but I wish to know about your 
 opinions on the next.
 
  From time to time, I use MSN protocol for communicating because, at 
 least here in Argentina, it's the most popular client for the common of 
 Argentine guys and girls. Not that I consider myself one of them :P, but 
 to be online with the most of my not-nerd friends, I have no choice 
 other than use the protocol.
 
 Maybe this isn't new to everybody, but it was for me today as it can be 
 to someone else.
 
 Today I've read some mail I receive daily from a mailing list of CS 
 Students of the University where I study (UBA), warning everyone of a 
 not-very-honest behavior of the MS people in what concerns to their 
 client/protocol "MSN Messenger". They do filter messages that contain 
 certain words, apparently from web pages that offers some services which 
 makes competition to them (I guess). I've made the test myself with the 
 word "subitufoto". This is a web page that offers photo upload for free 
 (www.subitufoto.com.ar). When the word "subitufoto" appears in some 
 message it is apparently sent but currently not received by the other 
 peer. I may be naive but this can't be just a bug, can it?
 We never know what other words are being filtered/recorded/etc but this 
 sucks!
 
 This makes me distrust profoundly of MSN from now on (not in the sense 
 of confidentiality which it naturally lacks). I don't know if this is 
 something geographically dependent (i.e. only specific for some 
 countries or languages), but I've certainly tested it and it's the bare 
 and sad true.
 
 Does anyone know something on the subject?
 
 Regards,



-- 
ManiaC++
Jan Knepper

But as for me and my household, we shall use Mozilla...
www.mozilla.org
Apr 10 2006
parent mufuah <crissypang yahoo.co.uk> writes:
== Quote from Jan Knepper (jan smartsoft.us)'s article

 Would not know if this is true, but just for this reason I use Y!, AIM,
 Google Talk, and IRC...
 Than Trillian Pro www.trillian.cc as client which as a SECURE option of
 AIM...
 Jan
 Tom wrote:

 Hi everybody. Sorry about the noise but I wish to know about your
 opinions on the next.

  From time to time, I use MSN protocol for communicating because, at
 least here in Argentina, it's the most popular client for the common of
 Argentine guys and girls. Not that I consider myself one of them :P, but
 to be online with the most of my not-nerd friends, I have no choice
 other than use the protocol.

 Maybe this isn't new to everybody, but it was for me today as it can be
 to someone else.

 Today I've read some mail I receive daily from a mailing list of CS
 Students of the University where I study (UBA), warning everyone of a
 not-very-honest behavior of the MS people in what concerns to their
 client/protocol "MSN Messenger". They do filter messages that contain
 certain words, apparently from web pages that offers some services which
 makes competition to them (I guess). I've made the test myself with the
 word "subitufoto". This is a web page that offers photo upload for free
 (www.subitufoto.com.ar). When the word "subitufoto" appears in some
 message it is apparently sent but currently not received by the other
 peer. I may be naive but this can't be just a bug, can it?
 We never know what other words are being filtered/recorded/etc but this
 sucks!

 This makes me distrust profoundly of MSN from now on (not in the sense
 of confidentiality which it naturally lacks). I don't know if this is
 something geographically dependent (i.e. only specific for some
 countries or languages), but I've certainly tested it and it's the bare
 and sad true.

 Does anyone know something on the subject?

 Regards,




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