appearing offline from the start

[andreas stynen]

sometimes i don't feel like talking to all people in my list, and of course
it's in such situation a 'risk' to open messenger. it's a bit rude to open
the program first and to switch then immediately to appearing off-line. is
there any way to log on to Windows Messenger 4.7 without other people
knowing that you do this?
thanks!

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Andreas,

Unfortunately not, Messenger currently doesn't have this functionality. As a workaround and
assuming you don't have that many contacts, you could always block all of them before you
sign out and then when you sign back in, unblock them.
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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"andreas stynen" > wrote in message
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> sometimes i don't feel like talking to all people in my list, and of course
> it's in such situation a 'risk' to open messenger. it's a bit rude to open
> the program first and to switch then immediately to appearing off-line. is
> there any way to log on to Windows Messenger 4.7 without other people
> knowing that you do this?
> thanks!
>
>