MSN Message Censorship

I happened to read upon an article from Slashdot. I had no idea that MSN censors the messages (going down the memory hole) that we sent and blocks it if it contains certain words e.g.

• .info
• profile.php? (including ‘?’)
• download.php? (including ‘?’)
• gallery.php
• pics.php
• ListAllTopics.php
• .scr (source)

Microsoft said that the reason behind this is "because they may be URLs to exploit Windows or Microsoft Windows Live Messenger security holes." (-.-" So it's only due to Windows bugs!)

So the next time you see the text "Could not send; a connection error occurred", it could quite possibly mean your message has been censored and blocked! (Previously, it didn't alert the user at all and just block the message without notification! -.-" Bad usability!)

Reference article: MSN Censorship