A question about Messengers

[freakygirl]

My ex husband gave my son and daughter (ages 15 and 13) their own computer (well an old one to share).

My 13 year old daughter was approached by a man on MSN messenger.. I guess some of the things he said weren't appropriate and she closed the messenger before showing her dad who the guy was.. and what he said. (she also deleted his name from her list, she can't remember exactly what his name was, but originaly she thought it was her grandpa asking her to authorize him to chat with her. She didn't realize she didn't know the man)

They were wondering if there was any way you can go back and check the history of messages recieved from MSN. (a file somewhere on the computer maybe?)

I know on ICQ there is a History button that keeps all the info there.. but I can't find anything on MSN like that.

They would like to be able to go back and see what he said and see if there is anything they can do.

 

[Tyrael]

I did a search on MSN messenger functions and found this

Can I save an instant message or conversation?

Yes, you can. But unless you - or someone else in the conversation - explicitly saves the contents of the instant message window, it will be gone when you close it. You can be assured that MSN does not save your conversations.

I'll search some more to see if there's something else but it looks like the message is gone for good.

 

[T.H. Oughts]

In Yahoo messenger there is a "message archiving" if you have a look through the tool bar. But this has to have been turned on for it to work

 

[lobito]

SOMETIMES< not always on MSN messenger, you can retrieve a name, as I've found out. I accidentally deleted someone, and went in somewhere, don't remember where, and found that name still there. I don't know enough about MSN, since I prefer Yahoo. I know Yahoo has a archive system, that I wouldn't for the life of me use, but not sure about MSN.

I hate to say it, but MAYBE that person will contact your daughter again, and THEN you'll be able to have a record of it?

Lo

After looking at MSN messenger, it under tools, options, privacy, my allow list... If she didnt' block the perosn, then the name SHOULD still be there.

Keep in mind that MSN alows you to change the name you go by, so unless you've got the email addy they are registered under, it won't help, most likely.

 

[Fly_On_Wall]

no there isn't I checked into that it said the only way to look at a conversation later is to save it as a .txt file with the save option.

but this was an older version, i've not found a way of getting it yet, don't think it's posible.

 

[freakygirl]

Thanks guys..

I guess they also emailed the MSN people to see if they can see who messaged her. I don't think they keep this kind of information but maybe.. who knows.

I guess my kids are no longer allowed to authorize new people on to the messengers.. without talking to my ex husband and his wife first.

I thought they were going to make them delete them.. but sometimes that is the only way for me to talk to them between our time together. With sports and everything.. my only time to talk to them is later in the evening..

 

[omourfi]

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[lobito]

I wouldn't be surprised in the least that the info is SOMEWHERE at M.S. But who's gonna go looking for it, without a search warrant?

This is the VERY reason I won't use Yahoo's Archiving system, I dont' know where the message is being saved, so I don't use it.

Again, check out the tools section, and see IF the name is still there, hover over it, and their email addy WILL show up.

Lo