Dear Lazyweb: MSN

[prog]

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?

Comments

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

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?

[prog.livejournal.com]

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.

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

Haha, moaning is an OK solution too :)