Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Patchou
I'll simply make an external request to msgplus.net to find out the real external IP as seen by people outside your computer

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won't people wonder what information is being sent? people will think youve put a trojan on their computer...

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Originally posted by Patchou
Wow... calm down everyone. For the IP thing, don't worry about it, I already panned to change it in version 3.10. I won't search the memory for it, I'll simply make an external request to msgplus.net to find out the real external IP as seen by people outside your computer. See? there was no reason to get angry .

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A simple ping? Or something a little more?
Ping's probably best to reduce the problems of your 5mil+ users overloading the server...

open a web page is a solution.
http://www.showmyip.com/simple/

well Millenium, that'S exactly what I'm doing (except that I only show the IP and the page is on my server). I doubt anyone will complain about the server connection, its only made when you use the tag so, if you don't like it, don't use it . Works perfectly well btw. I moved the old behaviour to a new (!IPN) tag (for IP Network). Showing IPs of your internal network can still be very useful depending on what you want to do.

Someone will moan about it... like they moan about the sponsor being a 'trojan'.

if they moan about it that it was an trojan then there comps where slowing down or reacting strange

Not quite: it's because they didn't read the installer screens, then found something they weren't expecting. Also, some AVs detect a virus-that-isn't in the sponsor.

but how could that be then normally thats not possible if im right

omg! what a stupid discussion... Anyway, I have to say that I agree with all what Cookie said.

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Originally posted by Patchou
I already panned to change it in version 3.10. I won't search the memory for it, I'll simply make an external request to msgplus.net to find out the real external IP as seen by people outside your computer.

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I'm not sure if people would like it when their firewall says: "Messenger is doing a connection to bla bla bla...". Anyway, good feature

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Originally posted by raceprouk
Someone will moan about [the connection]

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I see you agree Choli.