I've seen evidence that the Improved Instant Message packet still contains a good user name while the group chat window displays ???(???) for the same message.
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Nicky D. <sl.nicky...@googlemail.com>wrote: > > phenomenon's been occurring at least once a day. Sometimes they're ??? > at > > login, sometimes they show properly at first and then flip to ??? on > their > > own. Sometimes the ???'s remain throughout the session, and sometimes > they > > flip back to show the correct names. It happens regardless of whether > the > > user has a Display Name set or not. > > What irks me the most, is that changing from a good name(!) to ??? all > of sudden. > > And whoever thought using ??? was a good idea should really take a few > considerations > what this means for logs, IMs and so on if suddenly everyone is ??? > > I can understand that it is a problem if the name cannot be resolved. > But why not at > least take the safe route and use the old one (if there was already > one) and try again > instead of overwriting a good cache entry with ???. > > There should be a few fallback strategies like: > a) Try to keep the old cache entry. > b) Use the normal user name. > c) Maybe even use the UUID. > > But just showing everyone (in the worst case) as ??? really screws > things up IMO. > > Cheers, > Nicky > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges >
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