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WWW: Microsoft Censors Instant Messenging Conversations.


This happens at server-side, regardless of which IM client you are using. Joost de Valk has discovered that MSN server is censoring messages that contain “.info” domain name in the line.

I’ve tested with pidgin, the server is indeed rejecting conversations with such input. Here’s a screenshot.

pidgin conversation

Well done Microsoft. What’s next?

Origianal Story.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 at 10:17 pm by Yien Bin and is filed under Softwares, WWW. Total 1,067 View(s). You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, email to friends, or trackback from your own site.

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