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Old 03-07-2003, 01:19 AM #12
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The messenger service was designed as a way administrators could broadcast messages over an organisation's network to all the users.

Unfortunately Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, didn't realise it could be used for spamming purposes so they left it on as a default when they shipped Windows XP.

It's seperate from MSN Messenger so turning it off won't affect that.
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