For the past three days .NET Messenger Service has been having plenty of problems, it all seemed to start after a period of maintenance on Friday. When the service was back up and running strange things started happening, most notably it was being very slow, it could take numerous tries to sign in, then trying to talk to someone would only periodically work, the server wasn't responding to CAL commands and the connection would just drop.
At the same time it started blocking certain words in display names again, trying to set your name as “.NET Messenger Service” (with exact case!) would result in error 209. america_online and anus_lick were reportedly also blocked; someone at Microsoft must have been very bored.
The status page also came down a few times while Messenger was out, error messages include ASP runtime errors, “Server too busy” and “Service unavailable” in big heading format. Everything seems to be working as “normal” now; even the word filter is gone again. phpMsgrStats logged a lot of abnormal status messages over the weekend.
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