Info..?

[sherby]

When I tried to change my screename on MSN to a phrase with the word 'info' it came up saying 'invalid screen name'. I tried it with out the 'o' and it was fine. And I tried just typing info and it came up again....The invalid screen name thing only comes up if you used swear words, so is 'info' some sort of swear word? Am I just totally naive?

[hal]

I don't know about naive, but you are posting in the wrong category

[sherby]

How? Theres no catagory for "words you dont know the meaning of" so I figured this one was the closest.

[woofgang]

I'm not sure, but does MSN disallow words that would be easy to guess like "password" and "computer" in which case, it might disallow info. Other than this, the help facility on the microsoft website might enlighten you? I think that hat may have been suggesting that you post this question in technology??

[rja211077]

did you put spaces in the phrase...probably not allowed - ditto certain other characters.

[Squirrel]

http://www.geocities.com/postitlord/nicknames/MSNt
aboo.html

On that site is a list of words and word fragments not allowed by MSN (I would have to rate that site only suitable for 15+.) I once tried to have the word "Help" in my name for some reason, and it took a lot of trial and error to discover that was the forbidden word, but I have no idea why. There are plenty of ways to get around MSN's rules, though I don't recommend using them to add swear words to your name (you wouldn't do that, anyway). First, I would try using another letter in place of the "I" ("eye"), such as "l" ("ell"), because they look identical to me. Alternatively, the following symbols could replace letters:


l, |, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, �

�

'

0, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, �.


(Some of the symbols might not come out on Answerbank.)