Shoutbox

well said patchou

the bottom line is that servers have value... if 3rd party clients want servers they can get their own.  more to the point, who on earth would want a 3rd party client when they don't support plus?

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Originally posted by sock
BTW, exactly what stops any third-party IM client for saying "hi, I'm MSN Messenger 6.0" when signing into the .NET Messenger Service?

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If you modified the messenger exe enough wouldn't you be able to effectively make a 3rd messenger client that still worked on the servers?  I don't support it but if people can steal windows I daresay they can steal .NET bandwidth too