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;

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

== 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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where i came over your interesting article.
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      my contact is Fidelis mufuah pang
                 university of yaounde I Cameroon
                 Faculty of Sciences, Dept of Biochemistry
                  Level 4, tel;+23779415072

                    Thanks for meeting you hoping you will
                    my good friend.Happy new year 2011
               Until we meet, stay bless and be God fearing