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Izzy Rosenberg
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Join date: 20 Jan 2007
Posts: 14
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02-13-2007 12:30
There are many days I am stuck at work, but would love to msg people that are signed on to SL. The website shows your buddies, but I cannot find a way to contact them without running Sl.
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Kitty Barnett
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Join date: 10 May 2006
Posts: 5,586
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02-13-2007 12:37
If you have an offline IM from them that went to your email, you can simply reply to the email and they'll receive it as a regular IM in-world, when they respond back it'll go to your email like any offline IM.
Offline IM sessions exist for 3 or 5 days (depending on if they changed that like they announced they would), so if the email is older than that, it wouldn't work. |
Izzy Rosenberg
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Join date: 20 Jan 2007
Posts: 14
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02-13-2007 12:52
If you have an offline IM from them that went to your email, you can simply reply to the email and they'll receive it as a regular IM in-world, when they respond back it'll go to your email like any offline IM. Offline IM sessions exist for 3 or 5 days (depending on if they changed that like they announced they would), so if the email is older than that, it wouldn't work. I tried that, and my emails just bounce. ![]() |
Wildefire Walcott
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02-13-2007 13:07
I have two suggestions for you:
EMAIL-2-IM There is a thing called EMAIL-2-IM, made, I believe, by Max Case. You set it up in-world and put your friends' user keys in a notecard the object contains. Once configured, the object sends you an email which you can reply to and specify the 'nickname' of your SL friends to determine who receives the message. To get a person's user key, the easiest way is to have them touch a scripted object that reports it in chat. EMAIL2IM actually has such an object inside. Just rez that, have your friend touch it, and then paste it into your settings notecard in the EMAIL2IM object. If you poke around on your computer's hard drive you might be able to find a user cache file which contains the names and keys of all sorts of users you've encountered in-world. Problem is, that list is encrypted. There are a couple web sites which will decrypt those keys for you, but if you're concerned about security, it's best just to go with Max's object. I use EMAIL-2-IM and it works. There are a couple of drawbacks though. If the person you're IMming is online, the message will come to them as green text in their chat window. It will NOT appear as a new IM in the IM window. (If they are offline, they will receive the message as a regular offline IM.) There are several reasons for this, but one of them is that a user cannot IM an object. Only the other way around. So if you need to actually get a resonse from someone, you need to instruct them to IM YOU back so you can get the offline message which will enable you to respond. Just hope they catch that green-text message, because if they're in a crowded place they might miss it. Meebo Meebo.com is a web site that aggregates your instant messengers so you can log in to that one site and be connected to AOL, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, and Meebo itself. It works behind a firewall, which is why I use it at work. A really cool thing they offer though are Meebo widgets. A widget is a bit of code you can put on your web page that creates a chat client that anyone can use to talk to you on Meebo, even if they don't have a Meebo account! (It will create a temporary anonymous user ID for you when you use it.) For an example of a widget in action, take a look at the Web tab of my Second Life profile and click Open. (Or just go here, which is where my Web tab points. NOTE: The 'My Blog' tab there is not safe for work.) The 'Live Chat' tab in my Web tab brings up my Meebo page. The caveat here is you have to click Open in SL to actually open the page in a real browser because SL's web tab doesn't support certain web applications very well. But once you do, you'll see whether I'm online (i.e. signed on to meebo), and you'll be able to chat with me. Some of my friends have already used this feature to alert me of problems on my island when I was stuck at work. _____________________
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Winston Ackland
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Join date: 25 Jan 2007
Posts: 24
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02-13-2007 13:22
i just tried replying from out of the world to an email of an im posted to me while i was offline, and it worked fine. it's good to stay connected.
also, meebo is very very cool. thank you for that one, wildefire! |