Its so weird its like something so common now a days. But i have no idea on the mechanism on how it works. i.e technicaly how does the message travel to the recivor.....
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Electronic mail, abbreviated e-mail or email, is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. The term e-mail applies both to the Internet e-mail system based on the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and to intranet systems allowing users within one company or organization to send messages to each other. Often these workgroup collaboration systems natively use non-standard protocols but have some form of gateway to allow them to send and receive Internet e-mail. Some organizations may use the Internet protocols for internal e-mail service.\n\nFor diagram check:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/How_e-mail_works.png\n\n1 Alice composes a message using her mail user agent (MUA). She types in, or selects from an address book, the e-mail address of her correspondent. She hits the "send" button. Her MUA formats the message in Internet e-mail format and uses the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to send the message to the local mail transfer agent (MTA), in this case smtp.a.org, run by Alice's Internet Service Provider (ISP). \n2 The MTA looks at the destination address provided in the SMTP protocol (not from the message header), in this case bob@b.org. A modern Internet e-mail address is a string of the form localpart@domain.example. The part before the @ sign is the local part of the address, often the username of the recipient, and the part after the @ sign is a domain name. The MTA looks up this domain name in the Domain Name System to find the mail exchange servers accepting messages for that domain. \n3 The DNS server for the b.org domain, ns.b.org, responds with an MX record listing the mail exchange servers for that domain, in this case mx.b.org, a server run by Bob's ISP. \n4 smtp.a.org sends the message to mx.b.org using SMTP, which delivers it to the mailbox of the user bob. \n5 Bob presses the "get mail" button in his MUA, which picks up the message using the Post Office Protocol (POP3).
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It's setup to randomly appear in random sessions. There is no way to use it permanently as it is only a beta. They do it so different people will be able to experiment with it and submit their feedback.
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Here's something you might want to consider, its a security program for messengers. Best of all its free. Once you get it set up then it asks if the person is allowed to connect to you messenger. You always have a little red body on you task bar along with the regular one. Goodluck.
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great idea, already implemented in many mail systems (including Outlook, I believe). The problem with it is that "message opened" does not mean that it was read or understood.\n\nIf you send an important e-mail, you give them a day and then call to follow up.
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It's just another forward; I use MSN all the time, and I've never recieved a message like that. MSN is too popular, so I doubt they are going to close down, and they are most definately not going to run out of names. MSN uses email addresses anyway, and there is an endless supply of those.
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It's hilarious -- you should open it.  It's not a virus, it's something that careerbuilder.com sponsors/runs.  it's a monkey in an email that will talk to you.
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Well, for it to work properly, you have to ask questions, and they need to be answered. People don't usually ask questions in regular message boards. \nThis is a better place to "just answer the question"
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alot of people use http://www.paltalk.com/ and there are many instant messengers now.
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It sounds like the automated messages at least are in shady territory and there may be a legitimate gripe to take to the FCC.  They do identify the message as coming from the Republican candidate, but only toward the end of a call that initially sounds from a democrat, so people who hang up immediately are left with that impression.  This blog mentions it in the 6th cong. district in PA...is it happening in other places too?  I'd be curious to see some documentation from media outside the parties.
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It maybe that yourfriend's id has expired or some other temporary problem\nTry sending it after some time\nSometimes even the network causes problems
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dont worry samething happened to me 4 days back...... i was also concerned but did not do anything and i just sent and received some messages li i usually do and one day it was back to normal..........
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It's a scam.  Don't click on any links in the message; don't give out ANY personal information; if you have a virus program, update your virus definitions and scan for viruses.
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I also network my business through there, and at times have had the same problem. So has my partner. Now it's fine as is my partner's. As far as I can tell by the problem description, it's a MySpace thing. At times I have to send the message like 5 or 6 times before it goes. Same with bulletins. Sometimes I'll log out, then log back in at it'll usually fix it. Hope this helps.\n\nhttp://www.myspace.com/dingermtb
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too many people using the service at same time and they can't process them all. ps:- try opening your window and it will let the message escape from your house quicker???????................................................................................................................................ha ha
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i AGREE with polish boy... coz i am using YM to do sms but ofcourse there are limits in using YM for SMS... You get like 3 or 5 free sms after that the person you are sending SMS should reply back in the number th YM is using and ofcourse you will get the message in YM. but after 3-5 sms and the one you are sending message didnt reply it will give you a message like this:\n\nTHE PERSON YOU ARE SENDING SMS SHOULD REPLY 1ST BEFORE YOU CAN SEND ANOTHER MESSAGE...\n\nAnyways hope I was able to help you out...
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There are just making that up! Really how could that be possible... GOD only knows what will happend to us! Not those stupid CHAIN LETTERS. They're just making that up to be scared and you'll pass it and the CHAIN LETTER will get popular!! This is just nonsense whatever dummy message... Don't believe in those things. \n\nMy classmate receive a so called CHAIN LETTER, and it says "PASS THIS MESSAGE TO AT LEAST 15 PEOPLE and if you don't, you'll die!" My classmate just ignored it! Nothing happened to her!! \n\nChain Letters are Plain Letters with SCARY, FUN anD Some Stuff in them that make your guts come out!! It is just a funny joke that people like to do!! Don't get carried away!! :)
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Text messages are sent out by the networks via a computer at what's called an SMSC, for short message service centre. The message is delivered to the SMSC, which then tries to send it to your phone. If it can't immediately deliver the message, because your phone is off or out of signal, it will try again a few minutes later. It will keep trying at regular intervals until it is received.\n\nFor subscription text alerts like football goalflashes, the provider can configure how long to keep retrying - usually in this case they'll keep the retry fairly short as the messages are no longer relevant after an hour or so. For SMSs you send yourself, the retry is set to a certain time by the networks - it can be up to a couple of weeks.