quote:Originally posted by Steel Froggy
Well, unless you get their IP.
I stole all my contact's IP's, then I can simply check to see if they really are online or not.
There are a few problems with that still:
The person may have a high speed internet connection which never disconnects making you think they are still online.
The person may be on the internet, but not on WLM
The person may have a dynamic ip. That may lead you to thinking that the person is online, but instead it might be someone else that is online
There are a many more reasons why this will not work, but there is still that off chance that it may work(highly unlikely though)
this is the method i've used for a while it isn't fool proof it works a bit
download hopper live
then download convo notifier
then toast them as many time as u can
and if convo notifier responds they are on line if they are not online nothing happens
also
there is a more accurate way of doing the ip ping thing that was mentioned above, of course routers and circurmtances prevent this most of the time atm but it used to work when no one had routers or firewalls.
but u still needed their ip
you use a port scanner and thers a port msn runs on it's like port 8090 or something and if it's alive they are signed in it works better than just pinging the ip address
This post was edited on 05-08-2007 at 06:38 AM by Jarrod.