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RE: New discovery with "Appearing offline?"
He's talking about Messenger Discovery...
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05-13-2007 10:43 PM
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RE: New discovery with "Appearing offline?"
I was going to say, this sounds like the works of a Open Conversation Notifier.

These detect whether a connection has been made to you by the contact, and thus trigger an alert saying that contactA has opened a conversation with you.

These convo notifiers are however VERY unreliable and can be triggered by things such as viewing a contact card etc.
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These convo notifiers are however VERY unreliable and can be triggered by things such as viewing a contact card etc.


this makes interesting reading and explains how and what triggers it.
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05-14-2007 07:38 AM
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O.P. RE: New discovery with "Appearing offline?"
Ok is there anyway of preventing contacts with messenger discovery from seeing you do all these things i.e. blocking them,deleting them, appearing offline, opening windows etc?
05-14-2007 08:46 AM
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RE: New discovery with "Appearing offline?"
unless you intercept the packets sent then maybe, however, it can be hard to do. Otherwise there is no way of stopping it
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05-14-2007 08:48 AM
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O.P. RE: New discovery with "Appearing offline?"
Thanks...what are packets and how do you go about intercepting them?

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RE: New discovery with "Appearing offline?"
basically unless you have some knowledge of programming you won't stand a chance in trying to intercept them. Packets are small bits of data that gets sent and received between nodes (computers, servers, printers, etc).
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05-14-2007 09:14 AM
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O.P. RE: New discovery with "Appearing offline?"
Ok...two final questions...

1. Is there anyway of knowing who in terms of contacts-has discovery messenger?

2. Contacts who have discovery messenger, can they see me if i dont open a contact window or click on a contact viewing card, while im "appearing offline"?

Thanks for your patience

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RE: New discovery with "Appearing offline?"
1. you will need messenger discovery to find out, but be careful, some may have it but set to show up as if they don't have it

2. no
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05-14-2007 09:33 AM
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Thanks...have you got any reliable links to downloading it....as i dont want to download one that may have spyware or viruses etc
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