Start with away status

[dingy]

There must be some way of starting messenger with status set to away,
if I am at work and wish to ask a question of a colleague I invariably
receive conversation requests from friends or others on my contact
list - I don't want this to happen when I can't even see if the person
I want to contact is online without appearing online myself.

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Dingy,

Unfortunately there isn't a way to do this currently, especially with Windows Messenger.

With MSN Messenger, you can however find third-party patches and tools which will allow you
to login as offline, you can find these on http://www.mess.be, look in their download section
(more specifically the 'MSN Messenger Addons, Bots, Tools & Tweaks ' section) for
'JnrzLoader', 'Nega Patch' and others. Keep in mind that these are unsupported (infact they
violate the terms of the end user license agreement) and may cause some odd behavior.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

 

[YYZ]

Greetings Dingy,

Unfortunately there isn't a way to do this currently, especially with Windows Messenger.

With MSN Messenger, you can however find third-party patches and tools which will allow you
to login as offline, you can find these on http://www.mess.be, look in their download section
(more specifically the 'MSN Messenger Addons, Bots, Tools & Tweaks ' section) for
'JnrzLoader', 'Nega Patch' and others. Keep in mind that these are unsupported (infact they
violate the terms of the end user license agreement) and may cause some odd behavior.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

and, just as easily, you can "block" others .before. you disconnect;
when you next go 'on'line, shall be your choice if others "see" you.
the "block" remains - hth, dingy!
< re, and running, msn 6.2 .. >