signing in two times at once

[leaha]

I have seen one of my contacts sign in to messenger twice within a couple of
seconds.. it's as if the same user is on twice. How is that possible?

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings,

If you sign on, then sign off and back on, you can create the same effect. Sometimes people
do this (even more than once!) simply to "advertise" their display name.

There's also some third-party tools around that allow you to do the same thing in rapid
succession.
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Associate Expert
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[Guest]

lol at the advertising bit...
anyway, i think the APPEAR OFFLINE thing also be a reason... someone could be using that...

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Hi,

Yes, quite true, there's a few different things you can do to cause this. Appearing Offline
is one way, but another popular way (and this is a way to "target" a specific contact) is to
simply block and unblock (repeatedly) a contact and they'll be flooded with "X has just
signed in" messages.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.

 

[leaha]

Could this involve a 2nd networked computer? I don't know what *type* third
party things you are referring to. Maybe if you could give me an indication
of the type if you can't say a name of the software so that I could check on
that too.