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Originally posted by Pappapishu
but, it could be like the wabcam thing, there could be the choice of letting people know through the icon or disable it!
This is the idea, but there's a way to get to it. Not so simple
The fact is that it's a violation to ping silently in that way, but I'm sure there should be another way to do this without protocol terms violation. Touching the headers makes it obviously illegal, I'm afraid
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Let's say... sending a
special character at the end of the name the first time a message sent in a IM-window and the receiver would acknowledge it with sending the character once along with the nickname back (and so each time an im-window is opened or a contact is added to the convo, just like adding the
auto-message to the end of the nickname).
Of course it can be made optional so you can turn it off or ask the user during the setup if s/he wants to let others know s/he has MP! installed. Nice and clean.
PS.: It can be a series of characters so it cannot be easily hacked (microtime seed)
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