Some French echos: The French economic newspaper Les Echos only speaks of the spam and pornography reasons, in its headline. Le Figaro doesn't mention anything. Libération repeats what we could read this thread here: it's a mixture of closing a service that creates more nuisance than revenu, and creates a good moral image. Le webjournal Journal du Net amply comments the decision and cites the official reasons given by the director of MSN France. The journalist then also mentions the effetcs of the closing of the chat on the net use ratings as the chat was an integral part of the MSN portail. The competitors atack the decision as a advertisement scoop, and as irresponsible . Porn or criminal use of the Internet is not an important question here in France, maybe because the culture is not so sex-opposed as in some Anglo-saxon countries, and because the Internet is less used. Frank Thomas Rosny, France
From: Steve Jones <sjones@uic.edu> Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:56:47 -0500 To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] The death of chat?
Given the international membership on this list I'd be very interested in hearing reactions to MSN's announcement from outside the U.S. The news stories I heard about it on the radio in the U.S. emphasized spam and porn as being the reasons for the closing. Is that the reporting elsewhere?
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