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Trepia: A Buddy List Of Strangers
An anonymous reader writes "Trepia has released an IM client that automatically populates itself with people who happen to be around you. Something that has been done before by Apple with iChat, but Trepia claims to be 'iChat on crack' in this article featuring the software. This could have potentially revolutionary social effects..."
Trepia link missing from article
http://www.trepia.com/
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-Kefabi
You can turn off the spam you get via MSN by setting your client to only allow messages from people on your buddy list. You're still notified when people add you to their list (and can choose to add them), but strangers not on your list can't harass you. This feature is available in Trillian, Windows Messenger, Kopete, and I *believe* Gaim (not 100% sure though).
Check the privacy options.
i have no way of removing people off of my list.
and isn't it the idea to get people who are close to me? i'm in burnaby bc and i was getting people in ohio, california, new zealand... nobody at least within my own country. it was also making this god awful takka takka takka noise while doing it.
"hi where are you from? are you physically near me?"
"i doubt it, where are you?"
"burnaby, bc"
"yeah definitely in the area.. new zealand LOL!"
i'm doubting this program does anything at all, just kind of pretends it does.
It's an early version and i'm sure they have plans for tweaks and improvments in the UI, but from what i've seen this is a serious step in the right direction. After being on for 5 minutes I unlike some people here already started talking to a fellow college student from my area, and am seeing a few people trickle in nearer to me. Also you have to realize that up until now this IM has recieved almost NO press and therefore has a small user base, if we spread the word then eventually it will propagate out and there will be plenty of locals on we can talk to. 2 things: 1)I'm sorry for all the women (the 2 i've seen anyway) who are going to have to endure the neverending popups, so guys please be tasteful and mellow, otherwise this'll be a boys club and where's the fun in that ;>
2) There really needs to be a way to turn off that damn drippy sound!
Geeks of the world UNITE!
connection dialogue box says: "You are currently not connected to the Internet. Please take the appropriate steps and try again."
Welp, that was a short lived experiment. I guess they need to do a bit of work on their network code. Odd, in that it's supposedly an intelligent networking application.
Not the GPL...
Pulled from
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/license.html
license
Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Nullsoft, Inc.
This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
arising from the use of this software.
Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
freely, subject to the following restrictions:
1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be
appreciated but is not required.
2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
misrepresented as being the original software.
3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
or you could use Trillian. The Geek's solution for IM.
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
And, as if it wouldn't be enough, they also claim ownership of all materials you send through their application. Don't discuss your ideas on their chat - you give ownership to Trepia!
The quoted text was found under Help->About. And did I mention that their proximity algorithm sucks duck?MSN Messenger doesnt give spam - spam comes via your hotmail address, and if you make it public or forget to tick the boxes then you get spammed.
Keep your details private and the spam wont come in
liqbase
seems to be a problem relative to 98, 'cuz i tried it here on a box connected via cable (DHCP, ethernet), and it kept telling me i wasn't connected to the internet.. :-)
i had a sig, once..
1054626160 timestamp
Yep, looks like it (time from the Unix epoch).
1054630291 timestamp?
Don't think so... depends on when you grabbed this capture, but I'd say it's more likely to be a session timeout of some kind.
1044120269 login time?
This is approximately 121 days prior to the two previous times, so I'd say not. Build time of the binary?
Oddly enough I see more Europeans on Trepia right now than anything else, 1 other Floridian, and a bunch of people on the other side of the country.
Jaysyn
There is a war going on for your mind.
Then I fire it up on a windows machine...
I live in Kansas, people near me:
Longmont, Colorado
Columbus, OH
Aberdeen, UK
Brisbane, Australia
Sunnyvale, CA
Kalamazoo
Dover, NH
Switzerland
Yea... ok. Those people are physically near me. NOT. I could probably get a better physical location on people by picking them randomly from an ICQ list.
I mean... Australia? Can you possibly get any farther from Kansas, USA? I mean... is that even possible without being off the planet, somewhere?
"iChat on crack" indeed.
My first unsolicited message from an unknown party (I apologize for the language):
Hrmph.
-- clvrmnky