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> They also actively filter evil links out of your email. You know, like http://piratebay.se/.

They do? I was able to send myself several test messages containing this link.



Dug up the link and...doh! It was Live Messenger[1]. Right company, wrong product; but I think the point holds.

1. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120326/04530718244/micros...


Humorous mistake of a similar nature: I recently tried to link to a post about Skype becoming more susceptible to policing when it had previously been far more resilient. Messenger warned me that the link was dangerous. After a few minutes I discovered that it was the ow.ly service that was flagged as "dangerous" rather than the blog post.

I was losing my head for a few minutes.




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