I’ve rethought the image retrieval technique, and the new revamped system is now 100% working. If you have already added the bot and it is showing offline, please just delete it and readd it. Over the last couple of days there have been a lot of struggles, mainly with getting the GD image stuff working, and the change between the “ADD” and the “ADC” command in MSN Protocol 11 from MSN Protocol 9. Instead of encrypting the username, I am storing a username in the database that is unrelated to your msn messenger address. To use the bot, just follow this simple technique.
Add blobsy@brentp.net
Once the bot comes online, open a conversation with it and type “!setusername ” remember, the username cannot contain spaces, &’s, and the other normal items that dont show up properly in a http request. Once you do that it’ll spit out your URL’s. The system supports two image themes. There is the Windows Live Messenger 8 Style, and the MSN7 Style.
Heres an example (live):
WLM:
MSN 7 Theme:
If you cannot get it working, please contact me at brent.pickup[nospam]@gmail.com (msn and email).
Remove all the stuff between the []’s.
Regards,
Brent
For the last couple of days, i’ve been working on a blobsy bot that will show your MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger status via an image, and it is finally completed. It is in testing, although here are its details:
Address: blobsy@brentp.net
Once its online, do !setusername and then go to the url that it gives to you. A username with a space in it has not been tested yet.
To retrieve the url, do:
!showurl
Regards,
Brent
Recently, there have been a lot of changes in the IM Community and the Torrent community. The BitTorrent client BitComet has been banned from numerous torrent communitys. The ban probably encapsulates BitLord as well, since it is based off the BitComet source code. This is because the client does not respect the private tag, and thus shares the torrent publicly on the DHT Network. This practice is frowned upon in tightly-knit torrent communities.
In other news, the first beta invitations for Windows Live Messenger 8.0 have been sent out to beta testers. These testers are generally people who have been in the 7.0 and 7.5 programs. The links that have been provided in emails sent out by the MSN team will not work until the 13/12/05. Enjoy.
From what I have heard, no-one can invite their friends yet.
