Shoutbox

Instead of the PING and PONG! thing why doesnt Plus! have a feature that if its enabled it will allow the other person to know that he/she has Plus! It can also be easy disabled. The reason i ask this is because if i  Ping somebody and they dont have plus imma gonna look bad ... Another if Plus! detects its not on the other computer then maybe it wouldnt send formats in the nickname. Maybe plugins can use this too.

I was going to suggest this the other day.
You could for example have one of those 5 letter tag things attached to the first message of taht convosation. And if the other contact has plus, then there first message back contains the five letter code.
Although you couldnt stop them seeing your coloured name.
It could pop up a message when your trying to send a command like /me.
And the message could say something like "Your contact does not have plus installed and wont see the command correctly, do you still want to send?"

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Originally posted by madman66
It could pop up a message when your trying to send a command like /me.
And the message could say something like "Your contact does not have plus installed and wont see the command correctly, do you still want to send?"

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No question it be too annoying just a simple

Your contact does not have Messenger Plus! installed and may not be able to see the command. The command has been sent as text.

or

Your previous message contained Messenger Plus! commands but your contact does not have Messenger Plus! installed. The Message was not sent.

man, if patchou wanted to add autodetection he would have done it...
think before you post, he has added ping and you'll have to live with it.

there's no other way to know wether a contact has plus! or not. end of story?

*ignores M_e's post and waits for Cookie to come on this thread (like he does on EVERY thread ) and accually post something meaningful and helpful*

I think it had something to do with breach of privacy

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Originally posted by riahc4
*ignores M_e's post and waits for Cookie to come on this thread (like he does on EVERY thread ) and accually post something meaningful and helpful*

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M_E is right

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Originally posted by Fukafly
I think it had something to do with breach of privacy

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This is indeed the mean reason.

The request that riahc4 made has been done several times since /ping was added. (eg: to add a Plus! sign on top of the convo window if the user had Plus!, etc...) Patchou always replied with the explanation that it would be some kind of a breach of trust/privacy. And that's why he implemented it the way he did. If he wanted it he could've programmed it so it was invisible, but for above reasons he didn't, just like M_E said/suggested.

but you know...it wouldnt be a breach of privacy if it were an option...and default off....because if that were the case...obviously the person has to WANT people to be able to check for plus to actually turn it on...unless they're just plain stupid and turn on every option in sight...i still think he should go with it...

And it is send as text. Almost no other way to do it without doing dodgy stuff with the protocol. And text can't be hidden...

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by Fukafly
I think it had something to do with breach of privacy

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This is indeed the mean reason.

The request that riahc4 made has been done several times since /ping was added. (eg: to add a Plus! sign on top of the convo window if the user had Plus!, etc...) Patchou always replied with the explanation that it would be some kind of a breach of trust/privacy. And that's why he implemented it the way he did. If he wanted it he could've programmed it so it was invisible, but for above reasons he didn't, just like M_E said/suggested.

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OK if this was the reason then why does MSN have a icon that shows that the other person has a webcam or not? And of course the person can disable it and show that he doesnt want people to know he got a cam.


(sorry bout the bump havent been here in a while)