Custom Emoticons and Display Names

Hey,

I was just wondering why Microsoft hasn't listened to a large portion of the MSN Messenger community and allowed custom emoticons to be used in your MSN Messenger Display Name?

I understand that your entire list would then have to download the emoticon in order for it to display properly, but how large are they, really? The emoticon I want to use in my name is less than 2kb (19x19,10 frames of animation)! Even a dialup user couldn't complain about that.

A simple option to "disable automatic downloading of custom emoticons" would even eliminate the small portion of users concerned about that bandwidth use, and open up all sorts of avenues for customizing your MSN Messenger experience.

So what's up?

Please, someone tell me I'm wrong and that this is actually supported.
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