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RE: Is it possible or anyway of telling the real status of the contact??
well i dont think its privacy invading its just that you know the truth if he/she is away or not thats all :)
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09-30-2004 02:39 PM
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well i dont think its privacy invading its just that you know the truth if he/she is away or not thats all :)

Yeah but that's none of your business :)
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09-30-2004 02:50 PM
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RE: Is it possible or anyway of telling the real status of the contact??
why isnt it non of my business if you really wanna know if the person isnt fakeing that hes not there coz when he is there and he said he wasnt then you can proof him that he was there chatting to somebody else ;)

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RE: Is it possible or anyway of telling the real status of the contact??
umm :S just cause the status of someone is Away instead of the Idle that you can see, it doesnt mean that they're there :S what arey you guys talking about ^o) i put my status on Away when i really am away,  and sometimes also when im still on msn, so you can never know just by saying that if they're on Idle it means they really are away and if they're on Away it means they're there :S
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RE: Is it possible or anyway of telling the real status of the contact??
well if he's/she's on(idle) then he hasn't talked to antbody in the past 30mins or whatever then you can say that hes not there 
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RE: Is it possible or anyway of telling the real status of the contact??
yeah, i know, if they're on Idle then you know for certain that they arent on theie computer, but if they're on Away it doesnt mean that they are at their computer for certain, like someone said:

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With a feature like this, they could determine if you were there anyway and start saying, "Hey, why aren't you answering me? I know you're there, man..."
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RE: Is it possible or anyway of telling the real status of the contact??
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Don't you guys think a feature like this is a bit privacy invading?
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With a feature like this, they could determine if you were there anyway and start saying, "Hey, why aren't you answering me? I know you're there, man..."
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its just that you know the truth if he/she is away or not thats all
No, not necessarily...
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why isnt it non of my business if you really wanna know if the person isnt fakeing that
This is besides the point but, yes it would be non of your bussiness if the person wants to fake it. Let them, it's there right.
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so you can never know just by saying that if they're on "Idle" it means they really are away and if they're on "Away" it means they're there
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well if he's/she's on(idle) then he hasn't talked to antbody in the past 30mins or whatever
Indeed "or whatever"... Some people will become idle after 1 minute, some people after 99 minutes,... or whatever...


  • the "idle"-status is something that is send to you automaticly, it is not requested or anything. It is just another ("undocumented") status in Messenger. Hence no invasion of privacy...
  • Plus! already shows this in the eventslog.
  • If someone is "away" (instead of "Idle") doesn't mean he is at his PC
  • The "Idle" status depends on your MSN Messenger setting: "Show me as away when I'm inactive for x minutes". If you didn't tick that feature, then you will never be in "Idle". Hence you still can truly be away when you set your status to "Away".
  • Thus it is only after X minutes of inactivity that your status will be set to "Idle", and only if you have that option ticked.
  • Note that there are also Messenger addons which let you choose to set your status to "Idle".


also:
Question about idle status

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RE: Is it possible or anyway of telling the real status of the contact??
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Don't you guys think a feature like this is a bit privacy invading? When you set your status to 'Away', it's obviously because you want your contacts to leave you alone for a while.. With a feature like this, they could determine if you were there anyway and start saying, "Hey, why aren't you answering me? I know you're there, man..."
Seriously, that would suck ***... :^)


I don't think so, if I want my contacts to leave me alone, I set my status tu busy, not away :)
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