Is there a way i could find out if somebody is online in my IM even though he is invisible to everyone?
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If the person is in your address book (i'm assuming it's yahoo) the little smiley face will be yellow meaning that person is on-line.
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In your away settings, set it to invisible. You can be online but you will not appear so.
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Try to send them an IM. If it goes through, then it's a real screen name. If it says user not available, then it's not.
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you can go to Yahoo's member directory, put there name or their yahoo id (screen name) and it should tell you if they are online or not.
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Yahoo AOL and others don't have options like MSN's "see who has added you as his friend"\n\n:)
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2 of my answers have already been answered by explorer99. But here's an easier way. Go to any mail sent by that person, or even in the yahoo profile. Check out on the buddy icon to be alive or asleep. If the person is ignoring you, it would be awake on the profile but not in your messenger window. If it is asleep, then he's either offline or is ignoring everybody, not just you but all his friends.\n\nThe other method is by sending a request for voice chat or conference and run the following command in start -> run : netstat -a. You need to figure out if  a new IP address has come in it or not( you can run the command twice, one before and once after). For comparisons, you can type netstat -a > file1.txt and after inviting netstat -a > file2.txt. Check the difference between them.
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they may also have their "online" status masked. That's something that your messenger won't be able to see or update.
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May be possible in some cases. I'm using GAIM instead of Yahoo Messenger and in an IM window i have an "Info" button. Pressing it, in 80% of the cases, it shows the IP address of the person i'm talking to.
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if you go into invisible mode, you can see who all are invisible. but if your friend has put you into invisible mode then you won't be able to see.
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i think, regardless you are in his contact list or not, if he doesn't use option "only accept IM from contact list", he'll see the message, unless he hast login for sometime. no way you can know if you are in his contact list or not.  call him up and ask him?
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The only possible way has been answered. You have to appear invisible to all. \n\nBut then again, if the person who's trying to track you down wants to really track you, he can use "Buddy finders" which tells any one if any buddy is online EVEN IF THEY ARE INVISIBLE. !\n\nso, there is actually no way.\n\nif you don't wish to receive IM's from people who are not on your list, then you can change your preferences to receive im's only from buddies on the buddy list. !
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Hi Biggurl, \n\nHow are you? \nI hope that you are fine.\n\nPlease read my post at http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1006012803273&r=w for one of many ways on how to tell if somebody is online.\n\nHappy chatting.
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There should be a way for you to block the other user.  I did it today.  When you put your mouse over each individual name does a box pop up? If so, on the bottom of the box does it say "you appear online to this member"? or something else if something else use the drop down box to change it to the setting you like.  OR  Try right clicking on the persons name and go to "stealth settings"  and click on Permanently offline.  If you need more direction let me know
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If they know their static IP or happen to know what their dynamically allocated IP is(highly unlikely), they can use the 'ping' command from the command line editor of Windows.  \n\nMost firewalls drop ping requests, so if you're behind one, it's not likely that they would know if you're online.  If you aren't, however, and they know the IP, they would get a positive response and discover you are online.
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The only thing i can suggest is clicking on your contact tab in messenger and then click on message archive. Once you do that, you can click on the id of the person who sent the offline message. If you don't know who sent the offline message, you may have to click on all of your contacts to find it.\n\nI haven't found an easier way to find offline messages once the box has closed.
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nope you just need to know the AIM id. No e-mail , no online, no permission.\n\nYahoo IM requires permission, which you can only get when the other person is online!\n\nit's in the menu "add buddy" or something
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i have a solution to ur problem it is called buddyspy....ucan check wich buddy of yours are invisible and what chatroom they are in......................hope u like it          :)\n\n\nhttp://www.buddy-spy.com/download