October 11, 2004
@ 04:59 PM
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Messenger Troubles

Microsoft seems to be struggling with the Messenger service in the past two days. Right now I cannot sign in, I got booted frequently yesterday and yesterday night I could see everybody but chat with noone. What really sucks about that is that I realize how much some parts of work and life have become a dependent on Messenger working - and switching to another service or between services is not really a good answer to the problem. What's the Messenger SLA (Service-Level Agreement), anyways? 

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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 12:41:55 AM UTC
I'd recommend using a Jabber client such as http://www.pandion.be/download/. It encrypts communications.

Of course once it gains the popularity of messenger, it might start to have the same load problems. However it is peer-to-peer. The only load is registering your location with a central directory.
nospamplease75@yahoo.com (Haacked)
Tuesday, October 12, 2004 1:35:32 AM UTC
Everyone I know has been facing the same problem - I've been on Yahoo all day
Sriram
Tuesday, October 12, 2004 3:09:00 AM UTC
http://messenger.msn.com/Status.aspx?product=wm
Paul Schaeflein
Tuesday, October 12, 2004 1:55:21 PM UTC
It appears there's a new IM worm on the loose that targets MS Messenger(http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/49900742). That may be an explanation for yesterdays troubles.
Julien Adam
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