Youtube.com hyperlinks

All my friends and I have been able to duplicate this "bug" where any
message that includes a hyperlink with the string "youtube.com" in it
is immediately bounced. This is as of 9:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time on
May 9, 2008.

Anyone else experiencing this bug or know why it's happening?

I think this is disturbing if Microsoft is doing this out of profit
for their new launch of Messenger TV or something.

mynetx
Sat May 10 12:10:47 CDT 2008

Hello Edmond,

yes, this is a behavior that all Messenger clients have due to an internal
blacklist working with base64-encoded hashes. See the latest postings on
www.mess.be to get further details on it.

Regards,
mynetx

"Edmond Chen" <sasquatch.eds@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:15404701-849a-4c11-a84b-fa95de16819a@b5g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
> All my friends and I have been able to duplicate this "bug" where any
> message that includes a hyperlink with the string "youtube.com" in it
> is immediately bounced. This is as of 9:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time on
> May 9, 2008.
>
> Anyone else experiencing this bug or know why it's happening?
>
> I think this is disturbing if Microsoft is doing this out of profit
> for their new launch of Messenger TV or something.

Edmond
Sat May 10 12:51:08 CDT 2008

Yea... that sucks.

Has there been any official press release from M$ yet? I'm more
interested in the motivations behind this rather than "it's
happening." I mean, the only other people blocking YouTube are the
Department of Defense... Perhaps to promote productivity... A Mormon
universities and countries that with to censor free content... If
Microsoft has finally sunk so low as to block YouTube for greed then I
have no doubt there will be public outcry from the users (as I'm
starting to see already).

On May 10, 10:10=A0am, "mynetx [Messenger Plus!]"
<myn...@msgpluslive.net> wrote:
> Hello Edmond,
>
> yes, this is a behavior that all Messenger clients have due to an internal=

> blacklist working with base64-encoded hashes. See the latest postings onww=
w.mess.beto get further details on it.
>
> Regards,
> mynetx
>
> "Edmond =A0Chen" <sasquatch....@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitragnews:1540=
4701-849a-4c11-a84b-fa95de16819a@b5g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
>
> > All my friends and I have been able to duplicate this "bug" where any
> > message that includes a hyperlink with the string "youtube.com" in it
> > is immediately bounced. This is as of 9:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time on
> > May 9, 2008.
>
> > Anyone else experiencing this bug or know why it's happening?
>
> > I think this is disturbing if Microsoft is doing this out of profit
> > for their new launch of Messenger TV or something.

Jonathan
Sat May 10 17:28:18 CDT 2008

It seems to be okay now...

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"Edmond Chen" <sasquatch.eds@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:15404701-849a-4c11-a84b-fa95de16819a@b5g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
> All my friends and I have been able to duplicate this "bug" where any
> message that includes a hyperlink with the string "youtube.com" in it
> is immediately bounced. This is as of 9:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time on
> May 9, 2008.
>
> Anyone else experiencing this bug or know why it's happening?
>
> I think this is disturbing if Microsoft is doing this out of profit
> for their new launch of Messenger TV or something.