Archiving IMs

Hi guys,

I am a member of the Hippotech Users Group, and we discuss all sorts of technical problems with the Hippotech rental system, and the advice given is really great. Of course, the same questions keep cropping up, and what we need is a FAQ or a searchable Knowledge Base.

I hoped that having IMs sent to my email when not online would enable me to archive the IM threads and create such a FAQ or Knowledge Base, alas, group IMs are only sent to members who are currently online.

Can any of you smart scripting guys think of a way to continuous archive IMs, even when not online?

Rock

Use a bot.

Simil, can you be more specific?

By "bot" do you mean have an object with a running script that you include in the group such that the object recieves the IMs? If this worked, then it obviously solves the problem of having to have the av online all the time.

But then how is the solution finished out? How will the script in the object trap for IMs if there is no IM event?

Scripts can't do that.
I mean a modified client.

Ah, ok - a modified client. Then how would that work? It would keep the av logged in all the time which would allow the IM to be sent at which point you could trap them in the client and process them?

Correct.

By modified I meant without all the unneeded features. But if you don't mind using the resources you can just leave your alt logged in.

Ok, I see. A totally specialized build. All it does is authentication/login and then IM processing. No UI even except maybe a dialog to get username and password when it starts up.

Are there any bots available for download/modification that you know of Simil?

Regards,

Rock

Bots specifically I don't know, but all of the existing one are (likely to be) made either from the official open source or from libsecondlife.
There's a group called "bots of second life" or something like that, it might help.