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some info about msn by moudy on 03-12-2010 at 01:51 AM
hello every one 
I have 2 questions about messenger:
1- What is the maximum number of allowed contacts in msn messenger ? Will msnplus let us increase the number of contacts allowed in the list? I would like to know more about this topic. 
2- What is the maximum allowed attempts to sign in to msn? And if I exceed this allowed number of attempts, signing in will be disallowed... how much time will that stay?
Thanks for answers in advance 
RE: some info about msn by Chris4 on 03-12-2010 at 03:03 AM
1. It keeps increasing. I think it's at 1000 now, last I heard. Plus! can't increase this number, neither can anything else. It's a set number on Microsoft's servers.
2. There isn't a limit. You can try signing in to Messenger as many times as you like.
Hope that helps.
RE: some info about msn by moudy on 03-12-2010 at 07:16 PM
Thanks Chris4 ^^
I read several sources on the internet, each giving a number on its own >.<
Any way me Think what ever your sources are, its reliabe (I hope so 
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As for the number of allowed login attempts, are you sure its unlimited ? 
Coz I read in many places that there is a 5 allowed attempts, and half an hour between every five attemts, but I wanted to make sure of this info, that why asked...
Plz if any one can make sure of this It'll be gr8.
RE: some info about msn by Spunky on 03-12-2010 at 07:20 PM
quote:
Originally posted by moudy
Thanks Chris4 ^^
I read several sources on the internet, each giving a number on its own >.<
Any way me Think what ever your sources are, its reliabe (I hope so
As for the number of allowed login attempts, are you sure its unlimited ?
Plz if any one can make sure of this It'll be gr8.
Never heard of a limit on login attempts... In fact, I've never heard of it being implemented in an actual program... Usually just web sites
RE: some info about msn by CookieRevised on 03-13-2010 at 01:15 PM
quote:Because it also depends on what list you mean... There are several lists in Messenger (contact list, reverse list, allow list, block list, etc) and each has their own limits. I have no recent official sources for the limits though.
Originally posted by moudy
I read several sources on the internet, each giving a number on its own >.<
(but note that even those official sources are sometimes contradicting! Not everybody from MS, heck even from the Messenger department itself, know the exact limits, they usually take a educated guess or only know the old limit, not nessecairly the exact current limits)
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Regarding the login attempts, it depends on what you exactly mean and where you attempt to sign in. As there are some differences.
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If you mean how many times you can attempt to login with the _correct_ password and login, that's unlimited. If the login fails for some reason (eg: connection problem), you can simply try again as many times as you want, no matter where you attempt to sign in from.
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If you mean how many attempts you get to guess the password: currently you get 10 attempts when you sign in via the net.
After that your get the warning: "You've tried to sign in too many times with an incorrect e-mail address or password, or someone else is trying to sign in to the account" or the likes.
You can then sign in again, but you must also correctly answer a captcha in order to check if you're a human and not some automated machine trying to login.
When you fail again after an arbitrary number of times you are brought back to the previous website where you came from. Of course you can always go back again to the login page to start the process over again (but with the captcha check).
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If you mean how many attempts you get to guess the password via Messenger: as far as I know, unlimited (which is kind of a security issue if you ask me - I really think there should be a captcha check here too - but that would probably give problems with 3rd party clients).
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So, the lock down which once was in place when you failed too many times has been removed (since a long time now) because that was sometimes abused as it was dead easy using this method to lock other people out of their accounts by simply typing wrong passwords... Instead, the captcha check is in place now.
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PS: why do you need that information anyways? sounds a bit dodgy
RE: some info about msn by CookieRevised on 03-15-2010 at 12:02 AM
sorry for double posting...
The official limit numbers:
http://windowslivehelp.com/solution.aspx?solution...-8dc7-27ef8ea354e5
RE: some info about msn by moudy on 03-15-2010 at 09:32 AM
Thanks CookieRevised for the information, this is what I was exactly searching for... And peace I'm searching for these for general info, I have no Evil purpose in the backgroung, just some questions in mind I wanted to know ^^