"MSN Error: Friendly name changes too rapidly" Wha

1985 · Post by **1985** » Tue May 03, 2005 7:40 pm

Been away for a while and came back to see 5 of these "MSN Error: Friendly name changes too rapidly"

What causes that error?

djbsquared · Post by **djbsquared** » Tue May 03, 2005 8:24 pm

using MSN.

Post by **evands** » Tue May 03, 2005 8:55 pm

djbsquared wrote:using MSN.

That is not helpful

Do you have your display name automatically changing somehow, say with an iTunes track script?

1985 · Post by **1985** » Tue May 03, 2005 9:01 pm

evands wrote:
djbsquared wrote:using MSN.
That is not helpful

Do you have your display name automatically changing somehow, say with an iTunes track script?

No. My display name is "Grrr! %_statusmessage". When I left my Mac I set my status to away, my display name changed to "Grrr! (Ute på äventyr)", no error.

Post by **evands** » Tue May 03, 2005 9:38 pm

Hm. Because of how the auto-updating system works, %_statusMessage is going to refresh your name every 30 seconds [since you could change it at any point]. I wasn't aware MSN had limits on how fast you could change your name. Does it happen every time?

1985 · Post by **1985** » Wed May 04, 2005 1:04 pm

evands wrote:Hm. Because of how the auto-updating system works, %_statusMessage is going to refresh your name every 30 seconds [since you could change it at any point]. I wasn't aware MSN had limits on how fast you could change your name. Does it happen every time?

No this was the first and so far only time. I had the away message up for for about 2 hours and I usually has it up between 1-6 hours. I had the iTunes track script before but never got this message.