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The problem is, if they see the «I...», they won't have Plus. Therefore, they won't have the word filters.

nooo .. owww, people don't understand I'll explain this a bit:

As you all know (should know), Plus has a command named /me. What does it do? Well, you can write:

code:

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/me is happy

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and instead of

code:

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Choli says:
    /me is happy

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you'll see

code:

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* Choli is happy

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Of course, your contact and you must have plus installed to use the command and see its result. If you have plus but your contact doesn't, then he/she would see

code:

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«I is happy»

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How does it work?
Let's see: You type

code:

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/me something

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then plus replaces that by

code:

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«I something»

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and then plus sends it.

When (at the other side) Plus received a message in the form

code:

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«I something»

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it changes the way it should be displayed and shows

code:

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* Nick_of_the_person_who_sent_the_message something

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If the contact who receives the message doesn't have plus, he/she will just see what has been sent, ie:

code:

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«I something»

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Cookie's suggestion
He says: Instead of sending

code:

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«I something»

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why not send

code:

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«me something»

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Well, the idea is good, because people without plus would see that and that would make more sense; however people with a non-updated plus would see the same, because Plus wouldn't recognice that as a /me command. That's why I don't agree with the suggestion.

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Originally posted by jmccarroll
Couldn't you just go into word filter and enter 'I is' and replace it with 'I am.'

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I'm not sure if that would change the text, however you can, instead of writing

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/me is doing something

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you can write

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/me am doing something

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What would happen? well, people with plus would see

code:

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* Nick am doing something

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and that makes no sense.


Conclusion
If you're using the /me command, that's because you want to use an acction command, ie: say something in 3rd person (Choli is bla bla bla instead of I am bla bla bla). And it your contacts don't have plus, well, tell them to install it or live with the fact that some features of plus need that the other contact has plus too (/me commands, colors, formatting (bold, italics,...) automessages, pings, etc...)

thats what i call an explanation enough reasons tough not to add it

an even better thing not

"me something" BUT "I'm something"

I know i usually would type sumat like

//me scheming ¬_¬

so it would display on a Plus! user:

Nile: scheming ¬_¬

so a non plus viewer would see

<<I'm scheming ¬_¬>>

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Originally posted by Fukafly
"me something" BUT "I'm something"

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that's not the idea. The thig is type thigs like
/me thinks bla bla bla
and with your suggestion it'd become
I'm thinks bla bla bla

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Originally posted by Choli
I understand Cookie's suggestion, however I don't agree. Why? Easy: If plus sends «Me is doing some stuff» then older versions of plus wouldn't be able to recognize it as a /me command. That's the reason Patchou gave to Chrono.

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Yep true, .... I forgot about that...

but... If I'm not mistaken, there are already things changed which aren't compatible with older versions (emosounds for example).

Furthermore, change isn't bad, as long as it is a good change.

Of course, I'm in no position at all to dictate what Patchou should do, and I can only say what I would do in such a situation, and that is to update this "old mistake", even if it means that older versions will not reconize it anymore...

Afterall, we always encourage people to update Plus! to the latest version (and almost all do if I'm not mistaken); it's not like a program where you wouldn't benefit of an update, like there are some and where people (are forced to) stay with an older version....

Users on Win95 won't be able to upgrade to Plus 3 though, so you've got to keep stuff compatible with 2.54.0075.

Crap... didn't think of that either.... so this small "mistake" is always gonna be there then

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
If I'm not mistaken, there are already things changed which aren't compatible with older versions (emosounds for example).

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are you sure? i don't think so. Anyway, i didn't try it.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
we always encourage people to update Plus! to the latest version

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for the same reason we encourage people to install plus, so if everyone has plus there wouldn't be any problem

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Originally posted by raceprouk
Users on Win95 won't be able to upgrade to Plus 3 though, so you've got to keep stuff compatible with 2.54.0075.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Crap... didn't think of that either.... so this small "mistake" is always gonna be there then

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then, we'll tell those people to update to a newer version of windows (or patchou could release an updated 2.x version for win95 (j/k))

windows 95 is like almost 10 years old now i think those people should consider spending £75 on the windows xp update disc thingy