Peronsally I don't like the dial home idea for that exact reason, if the server is down, no trill.... then are we going to load MSN/Y!/AIM/ICQ/IRC and Jabber all on just to connect to our contacts until the server comes up. Defeats the purpose. I understand the need to protect themselves against software piracy but what would it be like it windows XP had to 'dial home' in order to boot? Or the Pentium V chip had to authenticate with intel in order to start the computer. Once you pay for it, put the liscense in it, and go already.
Here is another respective. You have some corporations that block at the firewall a lot of traffic to cut down on recent viral attacks and to keep the people working, not chatting on their IM. Many of these companies (mine included) do allow certain mediums such as AOL/ICQ and Yahoo, but block most everything else. If the ports from the admin level are blocked, there defeats anyone from purchasing trillian for their use at work since it won't authenticate and thus won't start. As an admin I don't have to worry about blocking as I can get through that, but most of our employees may not be able to (just one company perspective here) I got trill for the use of it's Jabber (since we have our own jabber server) as well as other mediums but the idea of calling home I think is more trouble then it's worth.
Just my 2 cents. Nothing more.
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quote:Originally posted by carbonize
Yes I can still log on to the website even though my account was started on 11-9-02. I still say that the dialling home is a bad idea as it is putting increased pressure on Ceruleans servers and, as has already happened once, if their servers go down nobody can start Trillian.
In regards to the MSN buddy icon thingy in systray alerts you will also see it when you do a mouse over on their name in the list and in the message box if you have the buddyicon holder visible. You can set an MSN buddy icon for yourself using the buddy icon in preferences. If you view a users webcam on Yahoo the last picture gets used as a buddy icon for Yahoo or if you wish you can actually set a picture to be used for a buddy.
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