I am starting to suspect that you cannot send an MSN Messenger IM to someone unless both you and the intended receiver are on each others' contact lists. Is this true?
Perhaps, at sign up time, if you tell it to send messages at all it will immediately send you a confirmation code so it can make sure the messages are getting through. Without the confirmation code it will refuse to do IM notifications?
Oh, I'm just moaning. The bug reports would have to be getting truly chronic before I'd resort to more work. :)
I'm more grumbly about putting more work on the user's plate, since 90 percent of them will look at the instructions and say "Meh, never mind." But that's a worst-case of them voluntarily not using a feature, which is acceptable to me.
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I'm more grumbly about putting more work on the user's plate, since 90 percent of them will look at the instructions and say "Meh, never mind." But that's a worst-case of them voluntarily not using a feature, which is acceptable to me.
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