Various status of activity to different people. casualsuede 12/21/2008 2:51:00 AM When I go to messenger, there are times I want to talk to a couple of people, without my whole list sending me salutations. Is there a way to set my status to offline, but communicate with IM directly to people I want to talk to? If not, that would be a good idea.

Re: Various status of activity to different people. "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsreplies[ at ]jonathankay.com> 12/22/2008 1:47:57 AM Greetings, Windows Messenger won't allow you to do this, but MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger do by allowing you to sign in as 'Appear offline' in the main Messenger window. Once you're signed in as offline, you can still talk to contacts (another MSN Messenger/Live Messenger feature) and they can respond to you. No one else will know you're online. The latest Windows Live Messenger can be found here: http://get.live.com/messenger/config -- Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation -- "casualsuede" <casualsuede[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F1848ACF-A24B-4564-B31F-CF4C64A797D1[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > When I go to messenger, there are times I want to talk to a couple of people, > without my whole list sending me salutations. > > Is there a way to set my status to offline, but communicate with IM directly > to people I want to talk to? > > If not, that would be a good idea.