MSN protocol filtering words
John Reimer
John_member at pathlink.com
Fri Apr 7 20:04:56 PDT 2006
In article <e177l4$kgk$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Tom says...
>
>S. Chancellor escribió:
>> On 2006-04-07 16:44:59 -0700, Tom <ihate at spam.com> said:
>>
>>> 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,
>>
>> Wow, that's some amazing spam. Almost fooled me, although I didn't have
>> any idea why he was posting his BS here.
>>
>> -S.
>>
>
>Are you serious? What kind of spam would that be? Not selling anything.
>Don't be ridiculous please. Maybe I shouldn't had posted here. Sorry, I
>was just looking if someone knew about that kind of issues in MSN protocol.
>
>Tom;
Tom... I imagine that your post would be appropriate for c++.chat. Can you try
posting there?
Interesting about MSN, if it's true. I've never heard of that problem.
-JJR
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