Re: [Gaim-devel] patch to add horz. scroll for editpane

[Luke S. <lsc...@re...>]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:07:27PM -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> That's why I always tought that there should be two aliases, the local
> alias, and the remote alias. The remote alias is the one your friend has
> set, and the local is the one you set, obviously the local one is more
> important.

or you could simply not update the aliases in msn or what have you. i know winicq used to 
reset the nicknames i gave periodically....

> 
> I even did a patch for that.
> 
> PS. Sorry about mailing with Outlook Express, I don't have a linux box, does
> anyone know of a decent email program?

pcpine. eudora. netscape mail even.  i've heard there is even a version of mutt for 
windows. 
luke

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Feakin" <ad...@sn...>
> To: <gai...@li...>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 8:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gaim-devel] patch to add horz. scroll for editpane
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 09:48:38PM -0400, Luke Schierer wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 09:21:54PM -0400, Sean Egan wrote:
> > > > I'm seanegn on AIM and se...@ja... on Jabber.  Perhaps you have
> > > > both aliased to "Sean Egan."  Now you double click "Sean Egan" on your
> > > > buddy list and open up a conversation.  You accidentally change the
> > > > "Send message as:" menu.  You have no way of knowing what to change it
> > > > back to.
> > >
> > > hence we make it so that you don't have to worry about it with person
> support ;-)
> > > now if only i could find more time and make some significant progress. i
> hate school.
> > > luke
> >
> > Oh, I didnt actually think of it like that :)  First thing I thought of
> > was people setting their aliases to try and confuse you, say someone
> > made a new MSN account and set their 'Friendly Name' to Sean Egan (I
> > assume there is nothing stopping them doing that - not that I have any
> > idea where the friendly name comes from :) ) and they then sent you
> > a few messages, and managed to get you to add them to your contact list.
> > If you accidentally poked that "reset friendly name" option on that MSN
> > user, and their alias was shown in the ticker, you wouldnt know which
> > Sean it was.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Adam
> >
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