Okay, so you know when you are typing something on msn (e.g Sally is typing) well I'm sure I use to do something so that I could be able to type without the other person knowing I was typing something. I'm sure other people do it coz, sometimes it wont say they are typing something and 2sec later a whole paragraph will appear from them?? Hope that makes some kind of sense hahahaha...
I know what you mean but I don't think there is anything you can do to change that. When someone replies with 'OK' or 'lol' I can't see the someone is typing a message text because they do it so quick, but for long sentences I can see it until they send the message. Usually I am too busy to leave the conversation up and wait for replies so I just minimize and get back to something else and wait for the reply.