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Not possible afaik.

Accually Ive given it thought and IT is possible....


Example; the way "What Im Listening To" works this way. If somehow a MP3 tag could be "emulated" and sent to the nickname as a hyperlink and showing as normal text. I think this is very possible and wouldnt require the other person to have the plugin.

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Originally posted by riahc4
Accually Ive given it thought and IT is possible....


Example; the way "What Im Listening To" works this way. If somehow a MP3 tag could be "emulated" and sent to the nickname as a hyperlink and showing as normal text. I think this is very possible and wouldnt require the other person to have the plugin.

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cool so you reckon it can be done? great let me know if you ever make that plugin ill definately download it.

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Originally posted by stuartbennett
cool so you reckon it can be done? great let me know if you ever make that plugin ill definately download it.

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Personally I have no programming knowledge. I am going to start next year on a 3 year course about programming but I have no idea. I just know the names of languages, what a API is but thats about it...
I would like to start NOW but I have no idea where to start...

Isn't this kinda dangerous though? If it was used and you clicked someones name, it would take you to the hyperlink of say a virus download site

Guess what? If someone sent you a link and you clicked on it, and it was a virus you would be asked if you wanted to download a virus!! WOW!!

Anyone with any sense won't go selecting to download/open random .exe .pif .etc files linked to in people's names :/

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Originally posted by MoRiA
Guess what? If someone sent you a link and you clicked on it, and it was a virus you would be asked if you wanted to download a virus!! WOW!!

Anyone with any sense won't go selecting to download/open random .exe .pif .etc files linked to in people's names :/

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exactly.

Then why the !#"%¤#"%¤#"%¤  does so many people get the "check this out!" .pif viruses??????? And those are even not disgused real good... You see the direct links to the file.. If you did it this way, the people would have no clue of whatever they were pressing... If people are stupid enough to open the .pif viruses spread around, then surely there would be at least twice as many stupid enough to open viruses distrubuted this way!... This is just a huge security risk!!.. There are to many stupid and ignorant people out there.. But I would like to say that this idea is good and great, but I don't think it should be made!...

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Originally posted by (CyBeRDuDe)
Then why the !#"%¤#"%¤#"%¤  does so many people get the "check this out!" .pif viruses??????? And those are even not disgused real good... You see the direct links to the file.. If you did it this way, the people would have no clue of whatever they were pressing... If people are stupid enough to open the .pif viruses spread around, then surely there would be at least twice as many stupid enough to open viruses distrubuted this way!... This is just a huge security risk!!.. There are to many stupid and ignorant people out there.. But I would like to say that this idea is good and great, but I don't think it should be made!...

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well firstly microsoft have a built in part of messenger 7.0 that prevent's the transfer of these files in the first place and yes i know that if the sender has the unblocker in stuffplug then stupid people can still receive them. so in addition to this plugin maybe patchou can add a feature into messenger plus that enables US to select with tick boxes what type of files we want to accept in file transfers if the pif files box isn't ticked which if done right patchou could make sure its not by default then they can't receive these viruses. and anyone stupid enough to tick that box deserves to get a virus.

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Originally posted by riahc4
Accually Ive given it thought and IT is possible....
Example; the way "What Im Listening To" works this way. If somehow a MP3 tag could be "emulated" and sent to the nickname as a hyperlink and showing as normal text. I think this is very possible and wouldnt require the other person to have the plugin.

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No it can't. The "What I'm listening to" is another type of object ("linkname" object) then the screennames (which are plain text objects).

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Originally posted by stuartbennett
well firstly microsoft have a built in part of messenger 7.0 that prevent's the transfer of these files in the first

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Which firstly causes more troubles then doing anything good. And secondly isn't by no means a protection against other malicious stuff which can happen when hotlinking stuff without knowing what you click. Thirdly, has nothing to do with this...

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Because of the security reasons said in this thread such a think will not be made in Messenger itself and neither in Messenger Plus!. The only "solution" would be a plugin, but as riahc4 pointed out, both you and your contact would need it.