Mugz, MOTD worked in H2H till version 2.05.
When 2.06 came out, a bug prevented players to join H2H and patch 2.061 was released to address this matter. Since 2.061, MOTD doesn't work any longer in H2H.
I thought a lot of times about asking Skuzzy or Hitech about this, but, having subscribed, I didn't care that much
I guess it has something to do with the debugging made between 2.06 and 2.061, since it involved a glitch that affected only H2H, maybe it won't be possible to have MOTD back in Free multiplayer...
Anyway, this is the right time to ask:
HiTech, Skuzzy, what happened to MOTD in H2H?