avoid bieng added to multichat

J

John Jay Smith

Some people just add me to a multiple chat without recieving some
confirmation
message or warning...

I HATE THAT... is there a way I can disable this??
I am sure it is a security risk


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X

XxRebelSeanxX

No there is no way of disabling it, nor is it a security risk. You choose
who to have on your contact list, and if you have people to add you to
multi-person chats it's your fault =).
 
J

John Jay Smith

err... whatever you say...

Anyone here have a real answer?

"There are always possibilities"
 
N

Nigel Reed

John Jay Smith said:
err... whatever you say...

Anyone here have a real answer?
Click to expand...

That's the real answer. You have to deal with it, or tell them not to do
it. If they continue to do so, remove them from your contact list.

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Nigel
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M

Marc

Nigel said:
That's the real answer. You have to deal with it, or tell them not to do
it. If they continue to do so, remove them from your contact list.
Click to expand...

The real answer is - nope MS havn't thought that through.

That fact that large conversations often cause my client to slow down
and crash does make it a security risk (and I have a mid range system,
if it can manage half life 2, it should be OK with an instant messenging
program).

Sometimes I don't want to be added to a conversation full of people I
don't know (and may have even blocked).

It is a problem - you remove someone from your list but then someone
else adds you into a conversation with them- the first person now knows
you've blocked them!

Surley a better approach would be if I block/remove someone, then they
are not able to see my online presence or recieve my messages - even if
someone else invites me in with them.

Marc
 
J

Jane Colman

It appears that the only way to avoid being roped into group conversations
is to sign in as "appear offline", and hope that nobody who you're messaging
invites you in......

Whilst multichat can have its uses, it can also be a big pain in the bum :(
 
J

John Jay Smith

Good I hope rebelsean reads your analysis... it covers just about all the
problems
I was thinking of

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C

Chris

I guess that's what you get for having idiots on your contact list that
insist on having large conversations, just be a boring person and you don't
get added
 
N

NLWard

Not necessarily, Sean. I've been added to a chat with a friend of a contact.
IOW, my contact was chatting with someone else, who wasn't on my contact
list. I could chat with both of them then. However, my friend asked both her
contact and me if it was OK to add me to the chat.

And that's what should be done. When this happens, it's common courtesy to
ask your chat partners, as well as the invitee if it's OK. Only then should
someone be included into a multiple contacts chat.
 
N

Nigel Reed

NLWard said:
Nancy Ward
Beta Butterfly
MSN Messenger MVP
Click to expand...

^^^
Are congrats in order? Not noticed that before.

It'll be nice for Jonathan to have an MVP friend to play with :)

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Nigel
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X

XxRebelSeanxX

Sure you can have your contacts ask you before hand before being added, but
that is not a fix on the client itself's end. Not all people are going to
ask you to be added to multi-chat conversations, it would be nice. I'm not
saying I don't disagree with a fix to this, I'm simply stating that there is
no fix to this at the moment (Something on the client itself's end).
 
N

Nigel Reed

XxRebelSeanxX said:
Sure you can have your contacts ask you before hand before being added, but
that is not a fix on the client itself's end. Not all people are going to
ask you to be added to multi-chat conversations, it would be nice. I'm not
saying I don't disagree with a fix to this, I'm simply stating that there is
no fix to this at the moment (Something on the client itself's end).
Click to expand...

Actually I was put in a very uncomfortable situation by being added to a
multi chat without being asked first.

Regards
Nigel
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K

kenny

That's one of the reasons. As for security, I meant it in a broader view.
If someone who thinks that you are offline, can obtain the information that
indeed
you are online, then that means he could take advantage of that in some way.
The scenarios are thousands. I wont even get into explaining the
ramifications.

When you block you mean you have blocked. Period.
 
G

Guest

The trick isn't to be boring, it's to be soo obnoxious, that people don't
want to talk to you. :p
 

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