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[derekblankmccoy]

*****Hi
Does anybody know how to figure out if someone is appearing offline in MSN messenger?
My guess is that there must be some kind of way to find out by packet sniffing, because the host has to send a command to let your client show that person offline. Unless the host doesnt answer at all, but I dont think its the case.
anybody know? *****

forget all this, read below.

 

[derekblankmccoy]

Update:

I heard something about a confirm.to that you add to the end of the e-mail address of the person you want to klnow is on or offline. If they read, a confirm message is sent back to you.

I shtis a service or something normal e-ail can do?

 

[ktwebb]

It's called a return receipt. Any email client should do this for you. It doesn't specifically say the person is online, only that they read your email but I suppose you send the email, and you get the return receipt soon after you'd could at least infer that the person is in fact online.

 

[derekblankmccoy]

Originally posted by: ktwebb
It's called a return receipt. Any email client should do this for you. It doesn't specifically say the person is online, only that they read your email but I suppose you send the email, and you get the return receipt soon after you'd could at least infer that the person is in fact online.

Can this be done if I send it to an HTML based e-mail service like hotmail or yahoo that is being checked with a browser?

UPDATE:
I just had a weird idea:
If I write my mail with HTML, I can have a itty bitty link to an image thats is a one pixel sqare and its transparent, or even a picture signature. If the user reads it, the email client would have to read the HTML and download the image to view it.
Now if there was a way I could monitor that......
well I could get an account with a free web server, upload a page with the pic in it and put a counter in it, i guess. I dont know of any applets that will e-mail you if somebody accessed the page though.
Suggestions?