MSN - Is this possible?

peteruk · 23 Apr 2006 at 02:08

Hey all,

Something that would be really handy to have on MSN, would be the ability to set up an email notification when someone signs in, or alternatively, being able to find out when the last time they did was. A little bit like IRC really.

Now I know you can get addons for MSN (though I confess I have not got 'Plus' on), but does anyone know of anything that does this, or has any good ideas?

Thanks to all posters.

Raymond Lin · 23 Apr 2006 at 02:13

There are MSN plus plugins that can do this, I used to use trillian and had this plugin where if the user i had a window open went away from the computer and then comes back, even thou their status never changed from Away to Online. The mere act of moving the mouse on their end will cause Trillian at my end to flag up that they've come back online. It used to freak my friends out how i know she was online!

binaryknight · 23 Apr 2006 at 02:13

plus does the last time signed on doubt it does the email notification but then really much point getting an email to tell you some one is online?

spirit · 23 Apr 2006 at 02:16

forget that, leave them an offline message for them to call you or something when they get on

peteruk · 23 Apr 2006 at 14:54

Raymond Lin said:
Trillian

Ok, I'll give that a look.

binaryknight said:
doubt it does the email notification but then really much point getting an email to tell you some one is online?

True, but what I forget to point out was that this was mainly for when I'm not signed into MSN. I guess that's asking a lot though.

spirit said:
forget that, leave them an offline message for them to call you or something when they get on

Indeed, but if you just wanted to know when they were on, and didn't really had anything important to say, just wanted to small-talk, then that might seem a little heavy

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_PD_ · 23 Apr 2006 at 15:06

Raymond Lin said:
There are MSN plus plugins that can do this, I used to use trillian and had this plugin where if the user i had a window open went away from the computer and then comes back, even thou their status never changed from Away to Online. The mere act of moving the mouse on their end will cause Trillian at my end to flag up that they've come back online. It used to freak my friends out how i know she was online!

Ace! Any idea what the plugin was called, or where it came from?
I can't find it amongst the trillian plugins I'm looking through.

binaryknight · 23 Apr 2006 at 17:30

peteruk said:
True, but what I forget to point out was that this was mainly for when I'm not signed into MSN. I guess that's asking a lot though.

i dont get it tho you want an email notification sent to you when they are online this would either mean you are off line and not on msn to caht to them then and there.... so you could just send an email in the first place
otherwise your going to be checking your email every minute to see if people are online in which case why not just run msn...?

peteruk · 23 Apr 2006 at 17:48

binaryknight said:
i dont get it tho you want an email notification sent to you when they are online this would either mean you are off line and not on msn to caht to them then and there.... so you could just send an email in the first place
otherwise your going to be checking your email every minute to see if people are online in which case why not just run msn...?

It's more like: "Hmm, I wonder if person A was on MSN last night when I was out...if so perhaps person B might have talked to them/if so maybe I should have done thing X later on/if so I wonder if they'll be doing the same thing tommorow..." etc etc

You get the idea.