Category: the Rant Board
OK, here's a couple complaints I have about some people on my messenger contact list. Fortunately though, I am not affected by anyone from here, but I wanted to say something about this anyway. Here's the deal. I've got a user or two, that every day, has this long message with the MSN sign-in that doesn't pertain to anyone anyone would know. This person is someone who was at my school when I was there. I just don't get why she can't use her sign-in name and maybe a couple words after it, as some people do. I don't give a damn about that so much. Now someone who Is here will periodically place a line of their favorite song at that time and I have to look and see who it is as I don't see just a screen name. What I do in both these instances is open a message as if I am going to send one, and look in the very top where it shows the name followed by the Email address they used, be it Hotmail or their regular ISP address.
Here's the other gripe. I have this one person, also from where I went to school, who will sometimes message me within 30 seconds or so of signing on. I hate that, because you can't get nothing done when you type and want to look at Em ail and that annoying sound keeps going off every few seconds or so, depending on what is being typed. I don't always rush and turn on my status to on-line rite away until I finish looking at my Email.
Anyone else have this happening to them?
Yes yes yes! I like the fact that one can change their display name, but I get very confused when I don't know who's who and I have to go figure it out. Oh well. And yeah, the instant you sign on and get messaged can be rather disturbing. Usually, nowadays, I check my E-Mail while signed out on all messengers. I mean, I can multi-task, but not with a million IMs! Hahaha!
if you are so anoyed, I have an useful tip. If you don't know who is the person that has signedin, follow the next. 1. Open an instant message window, or a conversation. 2. If you are using jaws, press shift pluss tab three times. Now, there is a box that says to: then i'll say the nickname and then the e-mail. Hope that helps. I get anoyed for example when they but a bunch of : and parenthesis, to get those faces, and when you are reading, you hear a bunch of non-sence words with the message "hi" at the end!
Yup, but I rarely even change my display name. The only reason why I even changed mine was to promote GCN (global communications network.) that me and a few ppl are using. I quit using the Jabbar feature bc A. a pain in the ass and B. slow and not to mention when I turn on MSN mannually I get my username for Jabbar not my MSN tag.... Annoying. So after a few weeks more before school starts it'll go back to being just Jessica. But I do see people using the lengthy display names and the constentally changing them....those people that change like every minute or so I took off my list. And then there's the group that ask you to add, get to know for oh a month then "POOF" They're gone.
I only stick with my hotmail tag because I don't use my ISP's email addy I'm registered to bc I don't want people getting that kind of info anymore. It's either my hotmail addy or the one I've registered to my website's blind/vi listing. One other thing that I do is basically shut the sound off when I'm on GCN chatting becuase it's a royal pain! It is! Seriously! Because I'm in the middle of a chat and there goes the sound for people signing in, and that's rather annoying to my contacts on GCN bc they can't hear a thing I'm saying. Also I go "off line" or "away" while on GCN bc I don't wanna be bothered on MSN thats why I gave my MSN Contacts the zip to load the program so that if they wanna chat they can reach me. LMAO I'm in a chatty mood, usually I get to my point without being this lengthy. haha.
yep Lol I use to do that too, but another way you can check who the person is without opening a message window is to highlight the name, press alt enter for properties - route jaws to PC cursor (and equivalent with window eyes) and review. it will say the sign in name then underneath there, the person's email addi.
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Yeah that really annoys me! I had someone on my list who would put her screen names in french, and it was annoying. And yeah like mentioned there's those who wanna talk for like a few times, or maybe not even at all!
Troy
with messenger plus! and messenger 6.2, you arre able to "truncate contact nicknames" if you have someone who don't know who it is, or if that person has long names, just put the cursor on its name and right click it, or press the applications key. Then, select "messenger plus! extras" submenu, and then press R to go to "rename contact" there type the name you want for the contact. If you want it to be applied in instant messaging conversations, just in the messenger main window, go to plus! menu, press P for preferences and under "contacts list" select "customise contact nickname" then, check the chekbox that say "display customised names in conversations" presss the apply button, and the OK, and you're done!
I always putm y name before thel ine form the song, or anything like that. ya know?
I hate when you have to check to see who it is though, but it takes 2 seconds, so...
thats a great idea
The way I find out who the person is, is to press the context key, and arrow down to where it says send email, and hopefully i remember them that way, and can relate the sign in name to the email address. When I first installed msn messenger, I gave it out on all the email lists I was on, and added anyone who gave out theirs, but no more. I have to have talked to someone in other places, and we have to have a few things in common, and I have to enjoy talking to them a lot before I even think of asking someone for their msn messenger address.
Once on accessible chat, someone asked me if I had msn messenger, and I said, yes, but I don't add many people anymore, because too many multitaskers just leave you hanging, and I can't multitask very well. He got all huffy, and said, what's the point of having it then. I still get enough out of it not to uninstall it, even if I can't text chat with 6 or 7 people at once.
wonderwoman