Use Tables!

Well, since the feedback form is broken, I’m just blogging it, which is much more fashionable anyway:

1. Open MSN Messenger.
2. Ask your friend for an mp3 recording of the last rehearsal of your band. (True story - I’m doing things legally for a change!)
3. Begin transferring file.
4. Wait endlessly.
5. Scream with joy as you (finally) receive your file (optional, see below).
6. Enthusiastically click the link MSN gives you.
7. Notice a nice popup saying that your file has been blocked. What’s more, you can get back to it by going to the file using Windows Explorer and use the Properties option on the file’s context menu to remove it from the list of blocked files.
8. Dutifully open Windows Explorer and navigate to your “Received Files” folder.
9. Look closely.
10. Look more closely.
11. Notice that your file isn’t there anymore.

Recap: MSN sees you receive a file. It will throw a bunch of dice, and apparently in a large amount of cases, decides you’re
not worthy of opening the (possibly large) file you’ve just transferred, and deletes it.

Workaround (hearsay so far): Don’t click the link in MSN, instead, navigate to the file *before* clicking the link.

This sucks. I now have to ask my friend for the same (8MB) file again, and wait another 15 minutes if he’s willing to send it again. He’s currently eating dinner. Thank you MSN, for wasting my time.

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