[JDEV] msn-t maintainence

Mike Mintz mikemintz at subdimension.com
Fri Dec 27 17:07:53 CST 2002


It's not that it only works with the official client, but that it only works 
if you IDENTIFY as the official client. It's like how certain features of a 
webpage will only be available if you identify as Internet Explorer, even 
though they'll work in your browser just fine.

I'd say it would be best to identify as the official client so that nothing 
weird happens, even if it is lying. It's quite possible that Microsoft has 
some kind of "if client is not official client, go slower than normal and do 
funny things to confuse them".

 - MikeM

> On some specific points -
> http://www.hypothetic.org/docs/msn/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=1429&t=1429
> claims that MSN paging may only be supposed to work with the official
> MSN client.  I'm not that fond of MS, but surely if that's the way they
> want to fund their network, we shouldn't lightly step on that, just
> because we can?




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