say by by to msn messenger!!

[ChrisH]

Copied, pasted & edited from a BBC news report.

MSN is closing down all its chatrooms in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and most of Asia from 14th of October. And changing the way the others are operated globally.

The only chat service available to MSN users in the UK will be the free instant messaging service, MSN Messenger, which is not so open and gives people more control over who they talk to.

Chatrooms on MSN's other global sites will either be supervised - or moderated - by an adult 24 hours a day, or will be on a credit card subscription-basis only. It means no free, unmoderated chatrooms will exist anymore on any of MSN's global network of sites.

By only making instant messaging available, chatters will be able to restrict and control who they talk to because they can only chat to people on their "buddy lists".
People need to ask permission to be a "buddy" and they need to know the user's e-mail address to make a request, which means most children only have "buddies" who they know outside the internet.
They will also continue to make MSN Messenger free to users.

Here is the link to the full story. (Once there you will also find other related links.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3133192.stm

Chris