Hi,

As many people, I use messenger at home and at work. Since I don't want to have a different MSN account for each (to not disturb my friends with twice the same buddy in their buddy list), I wondering having a "Location" function, which may store my nickname locally instead on MSN server (or change it automatically when I open messenger on one of my two pc's) e.g. John @home, and John @work, and the possibility to ignore or block some people depending on where I am (@work, only my colleagues and some special friends, or something like this).

The plugin could apply a local settings file at messenger load, with nickname, allowed/blocked buddies list, and maybe other settings.

I will even try to develop it, if I manage to understand everything, but maybe someone can do it better than me.

Thanks a lot John

Sounds like a good idea, also very possible

All the plugin would have to do would change your nickname to a variable that you can set...
It's probably a lot easier to make this a feature of Plus than a plugin, but yeah I can see it being possible (edit: as Ddunk said it could be changed in the registry, should have thought of that)...however I vaguely remember this being suggested before, I can't find the thread though

Actually, we don't even need a plugin to do this, it's already an option in the Plus! Registry Entry.

quote:

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HKCU\Software\Patchou\MsgPlus2\your@email.com\Preferences
   

NameOnSignin
   
If not empty, Messenger Plus! will use this value to change your name to a default one every time you sign-in on a specific computer.

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