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O.P. RE: Letting other's know you have Plus!
Oh, don't worry about the server alright, it can handle just about everything.. It doesn't care about what kind of packets are send, as long as the official client can read them, if the content type is unknown to it, it will kind of, discard the message and not show anything.
About the violation.. MsgPlus is already violating (in a way) MS's policies.
About the plus setting thing, or /ping or whatever.. I know that is possible, but then we have to keep track of every user, check if they use it or not.. if not set, send them a ping, or send them a ping anyway cause they could be on any computer, anywhere on this damn planet.
And I don't know about you, but I find it quite irritating when I meet someone who for example doesn't have plus, and I have to find out the hard way. I can ask that person, or I could find out by him/her responding like "I can't see that", but wouldn't it be much easier that messenger/plus would automaticly detect that? Just to let you know, I talk to nearly 1000 DIFFERENT people each month.
Also, I'm sure it won't be THAT hard to dig a bit deeper and tap into the socket. It has been been done by many small plugins, why not Plus? Or does it already? I don't know about you, but to my knowledge I don't see any messages appearing in my textbox which are automaticly send on for example /ping... It has to come from SOMEWHERE, which indicates it already uses the socket directly.
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