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Originally posted by ^_^
No, if a contact blocks you, you dont have access to his/her profile thats why it doesnt show the messenger appearance. Anyone can view a profile (web appearance) but messenger appearece IS NOT shown when a contact blocks you
1) No, not everyone can view a profile, that depends on the access rights set by the contact.
2) The Messenger-appeareance is also not shown when the contact has restricted you from viewing it, even if he/she is online!!.
3) The Messenger-appeareance can be shown even if the contact is offline!!!
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Originally posted by ^_^
the "access rights" that you say cannot prevent you from viewing the web appearance
Yes they can.
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Originally posted by ^_^
meaning: if you cant view the messenger appearance its because you arent in the contact's allow list. meaning this trick actually works like 80% of the cases.
wrong, it can mean a whole lot of other things too.
You can not test something like this in just two of your accounts and then comming to the conclussion it works. It doesn't... It depends on the different privacy and access settings in Windows Live Spaces and on the privacy/allow settings of Windows Live Messenger. Plus it depends on the syncronization speed of Windows Live Spaces and Messenger, which isn't always accurate either.
The reason why it appears to be working is because you _knew_ you blocked the other account because you did it yourself, and it happened to not show the Messenger appeareance info. But there are many more cases where the Messenger appeareance info isn't shown...
The fact that the Messenger appeareance could be hidden, even if the contact has not blocked you, makes that you can never say that a contact has blocked you!!!! The best you can say is: "
he _MAY_ have blocked me, but it may also be that I simply can't see his Messenger-appeareance info".
Note that this is so for _ALL_ contacts since you can NOT know what the reason is why you can't see the Messenger appeareance info; You can not know upfront what settings or restrictions the contact has set on his profile and in Messenger to properly interpret what you see or not see on his profile!!! In other words, this does not even work 80% of the time, it NEVER works! It is pure guess work as everything depends on the state of those settings which you can not verify in any way.
This is also true for the other way around; In certain cases the Messenger appeareance is still shown, even if the contact is offline!!! This means that, when you see the Messenger appeareance info, you can't say that the contact is online but has blocked you because you see him offline in Messenger!!!
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