I don't think it is but is it possible to determine the last time
someone logged into there MSN instant messenger account without asking
them, also what has happened to MSN Profiles that appear to have been
discontinued on 30th March. Thanks, Gav

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Clarification of Question by tuvix-ga on 21 Apr 2004 09:56 PDT

Right well im in the uk and if i right click on a user in MSN instant
messenger and click view profile it comes up with this message

As of 30 March 2004, MSN UK has temporarily closed access to the MSN
Member Directory. Please direct all queries to
http://www.msn.co.uk/msnhelp.



We appreciate your patience in this matter.

I have checked on that site and it dont say anything about it.

Regarding the last time a person logged on im talking about it when im
online or offline so if they logged in when i was offline is it
possible to find out when this was?

Regards Gav

Could you tell me where you might have seen the part about March 30th?
 The profiles I am looking at now seem to be working just fine.

There must be some means of diaplying the last time the user was on,
but the only way I know is to use Messenger Plus'
(http://www.msgplus.net/) contact manager.  I believe that tells you
the last time someone signed in while you were signed in.

I second jbaltzell's comment on msgplus being able to show when
someone was last logged on - but you have to have been logged on at
the same time for it to know, otherwise there's no way.

In response to your msn profile question, I'm in the UK too so can
confirm this - basically it's Microsoft covering their backs for all
the paedo stuff that's been going on. I read somewhere that there's no
official statement for why it's been closed but rumours are that
they're redesigning it so that you can't search for members by age or
without knowing their email address - something like that. There's a
hack available on mess.be that re-enables it again, but I think it
just re-routes it through the american msn profile site which is
probably what jbaltzell's looking at.