Re: "Windows Messenger" pop ups.. UGH!

From: Kevin Davisł (zkevindavisz_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 07/31/03 

Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 01:20:50 GMT

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 20:21:28 -0600, "Jupiter Jones [MVP]"
<jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com> wrote:

>Kevin;
>I put that phrase in because many do use Messenger Service.
>Messenger Service is used a lot in corporate environments and is
>growing in popularity in home networks.
>
>Some people seem to think the only purpose of Messenger Service is to
>let these ads through.
>The fact that it is a useful utility proves that is not the case.

I have never seen any home users have much use for it. Can you give
an example of the usefulness of it for many home users? Very few home
users are going to have any network setup for or real use for stuff
like printer notification messages. I realize that there is some free
3rd party client software that allows one to chat across the LAN using
the Messenger Service but that's about it. Certainly the built in "Net
Send" command is an awful substitute for chatting. If the home user is
into chatting that much they probably are using other chat clients
like MS Messenger, AOL, Jabber-based, Trillian or one of the other
multitudes of Internet chat clients, they would be almost as well or
better off using one of them and turning off the messenger service.
Admittedly, a downside (the only real one I can think of) would be
the security end of things.

I feel my previous statement indicated that it was not in the context
of coporate use. I would never recommend anyone turn it off in a
corporate setting if it was actually being used. And I also would
never recommend anyone install a personal firewall on their own in a
coporate environment without the expressed written consent of the IT
dept. Which in the vast majority of cases is not going to happen.
Doing it yourself without written approval can potentially get you
into big trouble. The best you could probably hope for is to ask for
them to come install one for you on your system or to block traffic on
those ports on their corporate border routers/firewalls (which they
should be doing anyways).

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