On 09/06/2010 11:17 PM, Mauro Santos wrote: > Mind you that since some time ago it seems this "feature" is not > reliable anymore. > > The are msn clients that had this functionality built-in and things have > gone south when it started to malfunction and reporting some users as > being blocked or deleted when in fact they are not. > > As far as I know no one knows for sure what the problem was (maybe just > a change in protocol or a deliberate change). I have tested it myself > with several different accounts and it was similar to a russian > roulette, this "feature" was not reliable anymore in identifying when > one has been blocked/deleted. > > Search more about this in mercury's forums, at least the problem came up > there and also on amsn's forums if I remember correctly. > Sorry to double post but as you can see my reply clearly does not apply to the invisible scan but to deleted/blocked detection, my mistake. However it may be possible that invisible detection may stop working reliably in the future too. -- Mauro Santos
