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RE: Letting other's know you have Plus!
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Originally posted by KeyStorm
...let's say I open a convo with you, and I don't have MP! installed: nothing will be sent along with my name. So it's rather useless that you send the information I won't parse in any way.
No it isn't, you could've installed plus! but disabled the "show I use plus!". So you will know I have Plus!, but I wouldn't know you have it. (that is without the sunglasses-theory)

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
I understand it's simple formality, but that would decrease load in bot servers, for example.
I wouldn't worry about serverload, it would be only a few bytes more with each convo, so...

But to implement this like we would see isn't a privacy breach, but it is indeed illegal use of the protocol, so... :'(
.-= A 'frrrrrrrituurrr' for Wacky =-.
03-08-2004 06:39 PM
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Letting other's know you have Plus! - by siebe on 03-07-2004 at 05:38 PM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by CookieRevised on 03-07-2004 at 05:44 PM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by KeyStorm on 03-07-2004 at 05:54 PM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by Choli on 03-07-2004 at 06:10 PM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by siebe on 03-07-2004 at 10:41 PM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by Pappapishu on 03-08-2004 at 12:01 AM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by BooGhost on 03-08-2004 at 12:23 AM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by Patchou on 03-08-2004 at 03:20 AM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by siebe on 03-08-2004 at 08:27 AM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by Pappapishu on 03-08-2004 at 11:20 AM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by KeyStorm on 03-08-2004 at 03:16 PM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by siebe on 03-08-2004 at 03:22 PM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by CookieRevised on 03-08-2004 at 04:07 PM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by siebe on 03-08-2004 at 04:14 PM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by KeyStorm on 03-08-2004 at 04:22 PM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by CookieRevised on 03-08-2004 at 05:56 PM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by KeyStorm on 03-08-2004 at 06:24 PM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by CookieRevised on 03-08-2004 at 06:39 PM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by KeyStorm on 03-08-2004 at 06:43 PM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by siebe on 03-08-2004 at 06:44 PM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by Choli on 03-08-2004 at 10:30 PM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by KeyStorm on 03-08-2004 at 10:41 PM
RE: Letting other's know you have Plus! - by Choli on 03-08-2004 at 11:08 PM


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