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MSN Chat rant

Post by Fixer » Thu Sep 25, 2003 7:03 pm

Ah... the fools of the world have united. Apparently Microsoft has decided not to allow chat rooms any more outside the US (more or less) and the 'experts' of the world are saying that it will cause a further digital divide....

AS IF MSN WAS ALMOST THE ONLY CHAT USED IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!

'Experts' my ass. If these people had a half a brain they would realize there was chat before MSN and there will be chat AFTER MSN HAS DIED. Digital divide? MSN only made it easy for fools to enter chat rooms, fools who really had little place to be in a chat room in the first place. For anyone with a lick of sense, there are other chat programs available. Hell, I remember live-chatting over the computer back in 1991, before most of people who frequent this forum had even gone through PUBERTY (no offense to y'all, I am just that old).

Ok, just had to get this rant off my chest. These morons act like Microsoft runs the world. It does not. It just makes the virtual world easier to reach for people who do not know any better.
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Post by SothThe69th » Thu Sep 25, 2003 7:08 pm

/me hugs mIRC.
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Post by Skorpion » Thu Sep 25, 2003 8:22 pm

*kicks mIRC*
It can't find any outgoing ports. I think IE, MSN and AIM cover them all.
*kicks those too*
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Post by SothThe69th » Thu Sep 25, 2003 9:56 pm

I think you just suck Skorp. :P
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Post by Skorpion » Thu Sep 25, 2003 11:21 pm

I think my internet setup sucks, and I can't do anything about it because I don't know how.
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Post by Mo0 » Fri Sep 26, 2003 12:38 pm

Skorp, if you could PM me your AIM address, I could help you with j00r probl3m >_> <_< *has a technique he used to get it to work*

Or I could just actually chat with you, whatever >_>
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Post by TwinTurbo » Fri Sep 26, 2003 12:49 pm

Maybe this 'step' of MicroSoft is only a way to make money?
If you want to use MSN chat you'll have to sign on with an account. MSN wants to get payed for using such an account.
They say it's becuase they can find people faster that way because they have your creditcard number. If you do anything wrong, the police stands at your doorstep 2 days later...

My question is now: "Are they going to make anther user-managemens system, or are they gonna use the passport system? And if they're gonna use the passport system, are they gonna charge people using MSN too?"

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Re: MSN Chat rant

Post by Miroku » Fri Sep 26, 2003 2:00 pm

In my biased opinion, I think a lot of what MSN does is based on how they can convince folks to subscribe, rather than using Hotmail. MSN elects not to use certain things that help avoid the use of data dictionaries by spammers. They could set some securities on it to help curb the tide of spam that inevitably assaults any Hotmail account. I once set up a Hotmail account and intentionally did not use it to see how much spam it would get. Without ever listing the address anywhere, it got to where it was getting 20 spam mails a day. I'm convinced MSN does this so that people who aren't even smart enough to use AOL will think "Oh, this is awful! I simply NEED to subscribe to MSN to make it all go away!"

I wouldn't be surprised to learn one day that MSN releases its lists to spammers intentionally.
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Post by TwinTurbo » Fri Sep 26, 2003 2:59 pm

MSN's markiting technique: Make some free services, let as many people subscribe to it and find a way to make money out of it. They can do this by selling email adresses to spammers.

For another thing, I think that they're trying to bind people to them. Same with all that .NET stuff. At the current time, it is free to put all your personal and business information on the net. MS is trying to make people dependent on them for free. And I think they're gonna charge people money afterwards.

Just think of it, you have a small business and your appointments, business-deals, contracts and other documents are .NETed to Miscrosofts servers. What if they suddenly deside to charge you huge amounts of money? Are you willing to lose all your data? No, so you'll pay them...
I am scared of that future... :(

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Post by Skorpion » Fri Sep 26, 2003 3:09 pm

Skorp, if you could PM me your AIM address, I could help you with j00r probl3m
Use the little button under the post.
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Re: MSN Chat rant

Post by Calus » Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:41 am

[quote="Miroku";p="166766"] I'm convinced MSN does this so that people who aren't even smart enough to use AOL will think "Oh, this is awful![/quote]

Yeah, everyone should be using AOL cause its for smart people.

To bad Anti-Aol.org isn't up.
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Post by Amanalphion » Sat Sep 27, 2003 12:13 pm

/me kicks stupid AIM, but continues to use it since all of his friends are on.
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Post by Cypher Blade » Sat Sep 27, 2003 1:37 pm

I thought they meant the chats on the MSN site. :?:
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