Shoutbox

How about changing it to a script which would send a message to specific contats or groups or even all contacts - you could make a window with checkboxes, like this:

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|Groups:
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| o All - o None
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| o Contact Group 1
| o Contact Group 2
| o Contact Group 3
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|Contacts:
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| o All - o None
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| o Contact 1
| o Contact 2
| o Contact 3
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| o Close windows after message sent
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("o" stands for checkboxes here)


It would be good because the group message function of MSN invites all group members into a group conversation which is pretty annoying IMHO.

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Originally posted by Yetike
How about changing it to a script which would send a message to specific contats or groups or even all contacts - you could make a window with checkboxes, like this:

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because with the scripting api i can't send messages to anyone without opening a chat window with each of them, and close them again, most likely it will just flood your pc and crash wlm.

I see...

Great Script! Could you add a command like /massmsg [add message here] so we can just type that in fast.

Can you not add a feature to automatically open convos with everyone online instead of having to open them all yourself? If this is possible id be using this script alot.

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Originally posted by giveitdeath
Can you not add a feature to automatically open convos with everyone online instead of having to open them all yourself? If this is possible id be using this script alot.

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This has been tried in the past but failed because of a message limit that the Messenger Protocol has.  Sorry.

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Originally posted by markee

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Originally posted by giveitdeath
Can you not add a feature to automatically open convos with everyone online instead of having to open them all yourself? If this is possible id be using this script alot.

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This has been tried in the past but failed because of a message limit that the Messenger Protocol has.  Sorry.

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Why not make it automated so it opens one convo at a time, sends the message, then closes the convo and repeats the process for every contact online. Would that work?

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Originally posted by giveitdeath
Why not make it automated so it opens one convo at a time, sends the message, then closes the convo and repeats the process for every contact online. Would that work?

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No that wouldn't, the problem is a limit of how many total messages can be sent in a finite amount of time.  I am not sure of the actual limit, but I do know that your method will not work.  The only way to do it would be to send the message to a small group of people, wait a little, then move onto the next group, wait, so on and so forth.  However even with this method there lies the problem that you may be sending messages while the process is going or even making another one of these mass messages which would mean that you have to have a larger allowance for the groups which means it all takes longer.  There is also another problem whereby people can go offline before you send them the message or others come online and ruin the groupings and some people get sent the message twice (assuming you were to get the contacts again from the contact list each time to overcome the offline problem).

In short, it may be possible to do what you ask but it is a lot of effort and A LOT of thought has to go into it to account for all possibilities and personally I do not see much gain out of doing such a thing other than for advertising purposes which I disagree with anyway (say NO to SPAM).

I was thinking about this as i use /all to advertise if i have a new video out, how do BOTS like spleak and smarterchild etc work because surely they'd just be locked up all the time, there must be some way around it

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Originally posted by aNILEator
I was thinking about this as i use /all to advertise if i have a new video out, how do BOTS like spleak and smarterchild etc work because surely they'd just be locked up all the time, there must be some way around it

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CookieRevised's reply to [Request] Multi msg script
In that whole thread, and supported by that post of Cookie's it shows that their are limits.  My guess with the bots is that they are using a different version of protocol which did not have any limitations or they have some other special methods to bypass this problem.... maybe the limit is in the WLM version that we download? I'm only speculating on these things, it would be nice for one of Cookie's big posts to explain the intricate workings of this stuff for future reference....