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Originally posted by CookieRevised
1) Call it with its proper name: "open/closed session notifier"
2) Add a big red flashing popup (so to speak) to inform the user that such tools are NOT accurate especially if used as a open/closed window notifier <= and that is not an opinion as many will try to shut me up with! That is a fact. What you call reliable and 14/15 accurate is extremely highly biased and such figures are only true for specific cases. If you take all the possible scenario's in account you'll see that it will not have such a good ratio.
PS: and the excuse of "if they want it, let them have it" is pure BS, as it is forums like these where those people come to when they have problems with such stuff because they don't understand the background of it. And then we are having to explain it again and again how it actually works (or not works). Again, this is not an opinion but a fact and said out of years experience with this stuff.
Alright thats not a problem then:
ATTENTION
This MESSENGER SESSION NOTIFIER is innacurate if you don't initially understand the principles behind it - proceed at your own risk.
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This all shows that you (plural) still don't grasp exactly why people like me are against this. The reason is very simple and I will repeat it again for the gazillionth time: People who do not know how such stuff works (and those are the ones which will use such tools the most!!) will actually rely on this and misinterpret such tools. If you said you read and understood everything in that long thread then you also understand that calling this an "open/closed window notifier" is the worsed you can do.
I know, and OK, I agree - people don't understand - but
some people DO - being part of those 'specific cases' that you mentioned, i'll say this to everyone now:
OK everyone, listen up. This is a SESSION NOTIFIER, whenever an "IRO" command is received by MSN, which includes people changing their display pictures, people opening conversation windows with you, anything to do with the P2P side of the MSN Protocol, this will respond to. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
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