Shoutbox

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Originally posted by NiteMare
are you really that paranoid that you think people are in apper offline just because they don't want to talk to you?
and if they are, why force them to talk to you if they don't want to?

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Quite franky, I really don't give two stuffs if someone on my MSN contact list doesn't want to talk to me. But it's a useful concept rather than blocking everyone else. Offline (Both offline and appear offline) Messaging has overcome this a little, but not by much.

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Originally posted by Chromokid
You could probably code a custom online server, which a plugin connects to and tells that server what your real status is, and only specified email addresses can then connect to the server with their plugin to see you.

In other words, you'd tell the plugin to upload your real status to the server, you'd set the emails you want to be to see you, and if they install the plugin they can ask the plugin to see if you are on the server, if you are, what status are you.

This would require a good webserver so that everyone could use it, and probably quite a bit of server and client side code. As well, to see your real status they would need this.

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You would need a pretty good server to do this. Not so much one with a good CPU, I'd imagine if you kept the code clean it wouldn't consume that many cycles, but memory is an issue.
My websever is a kick ass one, but it's clustered and the company doesn't allow dedicated processes running.