MSN filtering messages

Prominairy · Post by **Prominairy** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 7:28 pm

I noticed the other day that any message containing the string '.scr' would not be received over MSN. This includes even such things as 'www.scrabble-assoc.com'. Anyone else noticed this?

Arenzera · Post by **Arenzera** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 8:51 am

Works fine for me. Strange...

Kiel :-)

Prominairy · Post by **Prominairy** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 4:27 pm

Arenzera wrote:Works fine for me. Strange...

Did you both use Adium or did any one of you use a recent MSN client? I was thinking that maybe it's a security thing in either Windows or the MSN client; some paranoia about possibly infected screensaver files or whatnot, however weird that sounds.

Arenzera · Post by **Arenzera** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:18 am

I only tested this by sending myself a message on Adium - which IIRC bypasses the protocol all together (yes?). I'll look into it soon...

Kiel :-)

Post by **evands** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:20 am

Arenzera wrote:(yes?)

Yes

Arenzera · Post by **Arenzera** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 11:11 am

It seems you may be right... anything with ".scr" doesn't seem to send... *scratches head*

Weird. I wonder if it works on the official client like that, too?

Kiel :-)

Axi · Post by **Axi** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:25 pm

I suppose it's MSN which do that. we can transfer this kind of files too :
.exe, .scr, even .php when I work with friends usin' msn, I must rename files to ".txt"