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What can a person you are IMing with on MSN see about you?
I worry – ’cause once I had my real personal Outlook Express open. I was IMing with an alias. From another computer on our home network – I could see that the alias was associated with the real Outlook email. I had not used that real email to register the alias.
This happened a while ago…but I still worry. How can I IM anonymously – so they can only see the email registered with that IM ID??
Paranoid,
VQuote:quote:Originally posted by VA Riley…once I had my real personal Outlook Express open. I was IMing with an alias. From another computer on our home network – I could see that the alias was associated with the real Outlook email. I had not used that real email to register the alias.
You didn’t say how you were able to see that the other email address was somehow associated with the alias.
If I understand correctly, you had two aliases, and two email addresses. One which was your “real” email address; the other was just used to setup another IM account. True?
So how were you able to see a relationship between the two?
OK – let me make my question clearer – sorry for the confusion.
1) Strictly speaking – I just (it may not be an easy answer) want to know what another user can find out about your once you say they can IM you with MSN Messenger.
2)Where can you see what they see?
The problem I mentioned before, I can’t remember the exact scenario. So let’s just forget that.
3) Where can you set maximum privacy in MSN Messenger (5.0 on XP)? I want them to see just my email address (the one that is my MSN id).
I hope that’s better.
Still worried,
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I worry – ’cause once I had my real personal Outlook Express open. I was IMing with an alias. From another computer on our home network – I could see that the alias was associated with the real Outlook email. I had not used that real email to register the alias.Call it a bug or feature, when your Outlook Express is open and if you are sign-in MSN Messenger, the contacts of MSN Messenger, appears in the contact list of the Outlook Express, when a contact appears online in the Messenger, it also appears to be online in the Outlook Express, not just that, when the first time Outlook Express sees an a contact online (the contact may have been online, but not when the Outlook Express is running) it takes the Contacts alias name and automatically creates a contact in Address Book. Which ofcourse takes only contacts email address and alias name. (you can edit or delete the contact list from outlook express).
If you don’t have any account or even if you don’t use Outlook Express, it still takes the contacts and stores in the address book, though Outlook Express one Identity’s Address book, won’t be available in another Identities Address book.
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1) Strictly speaking – I just (it may not be an easy answer) want to know what another user can find out about your once you say they can IM you with MSN Messenger.2)Where can you see what they see?
The problem I mentioned before, I can’t remember the exact scenario. So let’s just forget that.
3) Where can you set maximum privacy in MSN Messenger (5.0 on XP)? I want them to see just my email address (the one that is my MSN id).
Well your question is still unclear or you are getting confused, let me put this to you straight, no one on IM list can know nothing about you until they know your IP address, and just messaging on the IM doesn’t reveals your IP address.
Second, you can create profiles for .NET Passports (the one you use to sign in Messenger, eg: Hotmail or MSN email or other passports), if you create your profile then all the other user can see is what you put in your profile. But to see a profile only the email address in enough. You can see profiles here http://members.msn.com/email@passport.com
Third, if you don’t want the other to see your alias name in the messenger, then use your email address as your alias:) but to me it is always funny to see xyz@abc.com says : Hi
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urxlnc,
Your explanation is a good start…I suspected that that might be the case (a link between Outlook and Messenger). I don’t like it when applications try to think for you.I think my best bet is to sit two computer in my network down next to each other and talk to myself…that is…have an IM session between the two machine and see what another person would see. It can be handy having a home network!
If I see anything interesting…I’ll let you know.
– V
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