Re: Idle Status in Messenger

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arizonawill wrote:
> Is there a way of telling how many minutes has transpired since a
> logged-on
> user last sent a message or received a message. I know the user himself
> can
> assign different status icons to his messenger icon but assume it is
> showing
> on-line active..then I would like to know how I would know how many
> minutes
> has transpired since the last activity for that user.

Greetings,

Assuming you're thinking global-wise, like how an IRC server will say "user has been idle for
x seconds", then the answer is, you don't.

If you mean how much time has gone past since they talked to you specifically, Messenger Plus
Live can provide that information but it's not getting it from the server, it's just keeping
track of it in your client itself.

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> [Forwarded to microsoft.public.windows.live.messenger newsgroup via crosspost.]
>
> arizonawill wrote:
>> Is there a way of telling how many minutes has transpired since a logged-on
>> user last sent a message or received a message. I know the user himself can
>> assign different status icons to his messenger icon but assume it is showing
>> on-line active..then I would like to know how I would know how many minutes
>> has transpired since the last activity for that user.
>