Couple of Suggestions

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ss2miraitrunks
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Couple of Suggestions

Post by ss2miraitrunks »

1. Sending offline messages
- sending messages to someone while they are offline
- they will recieve the message when they sign on

2. Chatting while away
- ability to send messages and chat while in away mode

3. Buddy list features
- removing your self from peoples buddy list
- adding yourself to someones buddy list

4. Chatroom feature
- make your self anonomyous when sending invitations to join a chatroom

5. Idle
- make yourself idle
- if you make yourself idle, and start chatting, you stay idle

6. Message sending
- Mass message sending -
Send messages to more then 1 person at the same time
You can choose which people/group(s) you want to recieve the message
- Message splitting -
Automatically splits messages too long to be sent

7. Spell check
- Option to have your spelling check

8. Blocks
- See who has you on there blocked list
- Remove yourself from somones blocked list

9. Sounds
- Mute all sounds of AIM


Soo.
What do you guys think? I hope most of them can be done :)
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Post by Portfolioso »

1) offline messaging can be difficult because bots like dorrmanbot have been shut down. there might be a way, we'll see what happens.

2)This is already a feature of AIM. It will hopefully be improved

3) Will not happen. Removing yourself was an aim server thing back in the day and was disabled. Adding yourself to someones list is also impossible.

4)Not sure if that's possible

5)Coming soon

6)Mass messaging was suggested and debated for spam reasons. Splitting IMs that are toolong is a great idea and I haven't heard that before

7)It's up to the developers

8)Impossible and if it were possible, it would never be done due to abuse

9)Could be done
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Re: Couple of Suggestions

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[quote=ss2miraitrunks]2. Chatting while away
- ability to send messages and chat while in away mode[/quote]This has been figured out and will be added for older AIM versions in a future build.

[quote=ss2miraitrunks]3. Buddy list features
- removing your self from peoples buddy list
- adding yourself to someones buddy list[/quote]The first one was disabled on the server-side. The second one can't be done because the servers don't allow it.

[quote=ss2miraitrunks]4. Chatroom feature
- make your self anonomyous when sending invitations to join a chatroom[/quote]Interesting. I don't think this could be done unless both clients used middle_man, because I'm pretty sure invitations are IM-based, and you can't send an anonymous IM.

[quote=ss2miraitrunks]5. Idle
- make yourself idle
- if you make yourself idle, and start chatting, you stay idle[/quote]This was in beta2 and will be reincorporated in a future build of beta3.

[quote=ss2miraitrunks]6. Message sending
- Mass message sending -
Send messages to more then 1 person at the same time
You can choose which people/group(s) you want to recieve the message
- Message splitting -
Automatically splits messages too long to be sent[/quote]I'm down.

[quote=ss2miraitrunks]8. Blocks
- See who has you on there blocked list
- Remove yourself from somones blocked list[/quote]I don't think there's a definitive way to know who has you, ss2miraitrunks, blocked versus the person being offline and/or blocking users that aren't on your buddy list. The second one could be done because one old-timer around the AIM scene figured it out, but if the exploit is used, the AIM admins will most certainly fix the leak.

[quote=ss2miraitrunks]9. Sounds
- Mute all sounds of AIM


Soo.
What do you guys think? I hope most of them can be done :)[/quote]yeah! I'm all over this feature suggestion!

EDIT: dammit, Port, you sidler! lol @ Seinfeld
I was sidetracked by Patricia Heaton looking good on tv, then my screensaver turned on and I thought "oh crap...I forgot I was typing".
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Post by Wotcher »

I'm all for spell check; maybe an autocorrect for very common typos (opinoins, teh, ovbiously, many words with apostrophes, etc).

I'm a great speller, but my downfall is typing too fast for my own good (and having never learned to use the left shift key, my right hand is very busy).
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Post by ss2miraitrunks »

[quote=Portfolioso]

3) Will not happen. Removing yourself was an aim server thing back in the day and was disabled. Adding yourself to someones list is also impossible.
[/quote]

any possible way around this?
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Post by rawr »

[quote=ss2miraitrunks][quote=Portfolioso]

3) Will not happen. Removing yourself was an aim server thing back in the day and was disabled. Adding yourself to someones list is also impossible.
[/quote]

any possible way around this?[/quote]

no.
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Post by Cronus »

Port, offline messaging is actually supported in the protocol.
The AIM SDK should have an interface for this shortly.
If doing your own code, its as simple as sending the message anyway, waiting for the server to return a user unavailable error, and then re-sending the message with an extra TLV on the end.
I am proud to say that DoorManBot served many people for quite some time, and also glad to see that AOL has finally added it to the protocol.

My username at MIT is austein, feel free to send mail/zephyrs my way there
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Re: Couple of Suggestions

Post by hannaxbear »

[quote=ss2miraitrunks]- Message splitting -
Automatically splits messages too long to be sent
[/quote]
I would love this feature to deathhhhh.

[quote]
9. Sounds
- Mute all sounds of AIM[/quote]
I'd really like this feature too.
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Re: Couple of Suggestions

Post by Portfolioso »

[quote=hannaxbear][quote=ss2miraitrunks]- Message splitting -
Automatically splits messages too long to be sent
[/quote]
I would love this feature to deathhhhh.
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It's very possible to do also, because terraim does it when you do a remote request for a directory listing. if there are like 200 files, then it's a problem, but it gets split
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Post by Wotcher »

Yeah that was definitely a neat feature of Trillian. Along with the Wiki-underlining. =]
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