"Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message
news:bd0ldg$nuupv$1@ID-105084.news.dfncis.de...
> The beta of Messenger 6 was released this week. Available at
> http://messenger.msn.com/download/v6preview.asp?client=1
>
> Lots of improvements, the most pleasing of which is that we seem to have
> gotten around those nasty NAT problems when it comes to file transfers and
> so on.
>

It is indeed - and you are correct in its ability to 'bypass' the somewhat
fascist firewalls that JANIS insist on applying to their customers' TCP
connections.  Successfully transferred several 2 and 3 mb files this
afternoon - but a 100mb 'exe' file took an eternity.

jonathan