With regard to the 'ping' thing. I know of that method, however, the other user is generally pretty alarmed when the word 'ping?' pops up on their window for seemingly no apparent reason... and I find myself explaining what I was doing... which the average contact on my list doesn't really understand anyway.
It's a pain.
The other item that I may have typed in a somewhat confusing way, put simply, means that I cannot use the inbuilt MSN identifiers for more than one personalisation status.
Rather than displaying (Sleeping) etc... I'm quite happy to use the ones that are available and can be seen by everyone whether or not they use Msg+.
If the 'tickbox' under the 'more statuses' list was included, and this problem fixed, I could vary the auto responses attached to the standard (Away) etc... identifiers by a selection in that 'more statuses' menu.
Therefore I could be (Away) etc.. for multiple reasons, dependant on the one I decide that best fits my state of (Away).
___________________________________________________________
More Statuses-------
MSN ---
Away
' --------------------- Sleeping AutoResponse
' --------------------- Eating Auto Response
' --------------------- Gone Out Auto-R
'
Busy
' ---------------------- Working Auto-R
' ---------------------- Cooking Auto-R
' ---------------------- Etc...
'
Etc...
' ---------------------- Etc...
' ---------------------- Etc... (Tick shows use)
' ---------------------- Etc...
'
' --
Plus! ----
Sleeping (New ID)-------------- Sleeping Auto-R
Gone Out (New ID)------------- Gone Out Auto-R
CounterStrike (New ID)------- CS Auto-R
___________________________________________________________
^ That any clearer?
SketcH
With regard that RSS link. It appears to be a Beta. With problems.
I'm not a big fan of using unstable Beta releases. They can potentially cripple my PC, and I have a lot of university coursework on this rig that I don't want lost or damaged through an unstable Beta.
Call me paranoid, but I prefer to be safe than sorry.
A built in or 100% stable plugin would be preferable. As I imagine Msg+ version upgrades might create problems for plugins that were built for earlier versions of the software.
