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O.P. better way for checking for Plus!
Is there away for better of indicating if people have plus! installed or not..
i know the /ping and then check /info, but then i gotta check all 200+ contacts

say i check them all.. how can i remember if they have plus! installed?  could there be an icon, or some form of text indicating they use Plus!?
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09-11-2005 05:37 PM
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RE: better way for checking for Plus!
it has been suggested before. but nothing came of it..

i believe it should be implimented.

we already have a key for each contact in the registry, why not another entry?
09-11-2005 05:59 PM
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RE: better way for checking for Plus!
It can a bit like handshaking. When you open a convo maybe Plus! can send a special character, without seeing (direct /clear or something?)

Just a tought though
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09-11-2005 07:36 PM
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RE: better way for checking for Plus!
Many solutions have been discussed, and so far every one of them has been deemed to involve an invasion of privacy. Anyway, the /ping command is already a sort of handshake.
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09-12-2005 12:21 PM
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RE: better way for checking for Plus!
He has already used the ping command on all of him, now he wants a better way to see if they have Plus! installed (like an icon or something) other thank going through the contact information
09-22-2005 04:14 PM
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RE: better way for checking for Plus!
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say i check them all.. how can i remember if they have plus! installed?  could there be an icon, or some form of text indicating they use Plus!?


Right click the contact, messenger Plus! Extras > Contact Information

Is that what you mean?


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09-22-2005 06:46 PM
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RE: better way for checking for Plus!
He wants a faster way to do it, like an icon on the contact window or in the chat window or some such thing
09-22-2005 07:28 PM
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RE: better way for checking for Plus!
which has been suggested numerous times and a valid solution still hasn't been found yet
09-22-2005 07:41 PM
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RE: better way for checking for Plus!
Manually checking each and every user, querying if they have plus installed, is really very cumbersome.  Realistically, taking into consideration the way the system works now, if you want to know if someone is using Plus!, you may as well just ask them!  So yes, a better solution is needed.  However there are difficulties to be overcome; technical and privacy.

The technical aren't the main concern, the privacy is.  Personally I sit amongst those who think by installing Plus! you should really be allowing people who satisfy the following:
a) Have Messenger Installed
b) Have plus installed
c) Are accepted on your contact list
d) Are not blocked
...to see you have Plus installed (here comes the critical bit) via a SILENT HANDSHAKE.  It should be presumed that having Plus! installed (amongst all the other conditions listed above) would allow this.  The same underlying core principle is applied to Messenger itself.

This would be beneficial to seeing what features could be activated successfully (I.E. What's the point of sending people formatted text if all they can see is a heap of junk characters?).

However this is only one side of the story, and those who think that a silent handshake model shouldn't be allowed bring up their own set of valid points, much of which I also agree with.

This is a hard issue to place.  A better solution is needed, but (ultimately) compromises will need to be made.

09-24-2005 04:42 PM
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RE: better way for checking for Plus!
I personally would like to see the secret message/handshake implemented also but I can see the problems it has the capacity to cause.

As for a symbol in the contact list, Plus! has a little function called Custom names ;) I know it will be tedious to go through the entire contact list to add a symbol/letter/whatever to each contact but it would only have to be done once and it makes for an easy check.
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