The most frequent use I've seen is for print servers notifying that something's printed. I haven't seen that in a while though because most people just watch their print queue directly now. Sometimes, like in a university, it will be used to remind folks they need to log off because labs are closing etc.
<with a pinch of salt> there's usually not much reason for running it on back-end web systems. Corp machines like domain controllers are a different story. Your best bet is like Jacob says, block it at the network perimeter. -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 9:53 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: System Alerts" spam news Does anyone have a list of things that might rely on the Messenger service to be available for notifications? Some things like NetBIOS use it for failure messages and I would think it could be problematic to just disable it willy-nilly. -Kevin > -----Original Message----- > From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 8:43 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: System Alerts" spam news > > > Harkins,Patrick wrote: > > Please, what is Windows Messenger? Anybody? And I don't mean > msn messenger. > > Windows Messenger is a service for system messages that is listed > amongst the services in the control panel and can thus be disabled :) > > Jochem > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_community Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
