looking for a Messenger plugin that will...

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Greetings Alegator,

There's no way to know if they're specifically looking for your display picture, but you can
use something like StuffPlug-NG (http://www.stuffplug.com) for Messenger Plus
(http://www.msgplus.net) to detect when someone has "opened a conversation window". As well,
Messenger Discovery (http://www.messengerdiscovery.com) will also do this.
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"alegator" <larry2002@argentina.com> wrote in message
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> Whenever I double click on an online contact the chat window pops up and if the contact has
> a display picture active it will take a few seconds for that picture to be displayed, even
> if no chat has been started at all. So I assume there must be some sort of "ping" going on
> in which my client requests the contact's client to send the picture information.
> Based on the above, is there any way (softwrae, plugin, utility)of knowing if a contact in
> your list is opening a chat window to "look" at my display picture?
> Thanks
>