Thursday, September 06, 2007 12:53:33 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

wanted to link a friend to a domain I'm currently working on, but oooh nooooo. I can't possible do that.

I start talking about the domain to him, and he starts getting confused.

"What are you talking about Rob?"

"The site I linked you to"

"Eh? The conversation starts with 'X'"

....

Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom block "harmful" phrases, such as ".cmd" and ".scr", so people can't be lured into installing trojans. Fine. I can deal with that, but when their RegEx is so fucking retarded it can't tell the difference between an actual .scr and something which just happens to have .scr in it, you have to start wondering just what kind of idiots are behind the design of this increasingly redundant chat client.

My url? It began with www.scr (Not giving the full URL, cos it's a WIP!). And that was enough to get it censored. They don't tell you your message has been blocked or anything useful like that. They just block the entire message and nobody is any the wiser.

Absolute fucktardedness. I remember coming across this a year or so ago and thinking "Oh, they'll be sure to sort ot out in the future".

Not so it seems. They're too busy adding rollovers to the MSN adverts, and throwing ad-laden emoticons and winks at the client and obfuscating the network protocol so people can't make third party clients.

Forget about any REAL flaws this idiotic piece of software might have. (Ok ok, I know the filtering is done server side, so it's bugger all to do with the client, but you'd have thought they'd fix the glaringly obvious by now no?)