Shoutbox

here is my two cents

I read at several forums (here & stuffplug) that windows open notifier is not reliable.. ok I got it but the main question is do we need a a reliable WON?

think this

a friend is going to send you a message so he opens a window
--- there comes the WON : xxx has opened a conversation
then after a few seconds later your friend says "hello"

when we are going to get the message a few seconds later, do we really need to get notified ? what's the point?

WON gave us "not reliable" notifications when somebody looked to our contact card etc. Did anybody thought that this is what people actually wants? I don't care about getting a notification about somebody is going to send me a message a few seconds later , I wonder who is checking my contact card, my space, my display picture, my personal message etc... Actually what all these people want is what the developers call "not reliable" notifications.

Here is an idea let's change the name from "Open Window Notification" to "Whose checking you out" and make everyone happy.