Re: OT ish: Blocking MSN Messenger

Mark Carver wrote: 
Phil Newnham wrote:


Actually, having answered you once... you can't. If you do manage to block msn and they are at all web savvy, they'll use the web-only version off the website...

I don't think msn is necessarily a distraction, either - you can also use it to collaborate. Perhaps it would be better to try and sell the kids on the idea of "you use it responsibly, or I take it away"?

Thanks Phil, and the others for the responses. Yes it is a case of 'be sensible or lose it', the other alternative is to lock their machines into a cut down mode and use a password protected log on for 'leisure applications', but if as you say there's a web portal of MSN, I'm buggered.

Bloody Bill Gates again eh ? 

http://webmessenger.msn.com/?mkt=en-gb

This is one of the few Bill Gates things I rather like, cos it means you can use msn on a machine even if you're not an administrator. Which can be handy. Not really helpful in your case, I'll admit, but then I'm very rarely on that side of the fence ;)

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