Messenger Woes

Dang! There it goes again...

Ever since I've started my stint in a local university, I've realised how helpful MSN messenger is. It's a wonderful tool for communication, it's a great avenue for e-flirting and it keeps me awake during boring lessons.

My contact list has ballooned ever since matriculation. Where I only had 30 plus contacts before starting school, I now have close to 150 more names. Its simple, it's efficient, it's the most pervasive IM service there is IMO.

School used to allow the MSN ports. Students would MSN at home, they'd MSN in the library, they'd MSN during class. Conversations would go like:

A "What the hell is the prof talking about?"

B "Well, if you remember what was taught in FA..."
or
A "Hey good looking. What's for dinner?"

B "I still hate the fact that you appeared late for every single meeting last term. Buzz off."

The professors didn't mind. The nice thing about their teaching pedagogy is that "if you wanna learn, you listen and take notes. If you don't wanna listen and wanna waste your youth away, it's your life." You could hear keyboards tapping away while he continues his seminar.

But when the new school term started, we realised something hideous. Our MSNs would suddenly disconnect together. And that never happened when we were at home. So, being the smart university students that we are, we arrived at this conclusion: the school's network is screwing with our MSN. It's quite simple, really. Find the ports MSN uses and block them at the central server. Voila! One thousand MSN users disconnected simultaneously.

Why? What kind of sick entertainment do you guys up there get out of watching students desperately trying to reconnect? Why does MSN only work intermittently now? What is wrong with students MSN-ing? Are you going to impose higher school fees for ppl who use MSN now?

Conversely, will my school fees be cheaper if I switch to WiMax when it comes out? -Jimmy