no

Originally posted by t3 Not_Turtle:

no

Simple enough

This is called entrapment in legal terms, and would invalidate all further actions.
You'd also probably get banned for invalid trades.

(Incidentally, /me no longer works.)

Originally posted by Champelliot:

(Incidentally, /me no longer works.)

Is that so[i47.tinypic.com]?

Also, not all countries see entrapment as a reason to not prosecute. The US for example regularly entraps people for even minor drug and sex offenses, if I am not mistaken.

Well, that is interesting Uranium235, I must investigate later. It may be that the /me function is still in the protocol, but disabled in normal clients; the vapor client for steam could do this if this is true.

Originally posted by Uranium235:

Is that so[i47.tinypic.com]?

Maybe.[puu.sh]

It's completely disabled if you're using the latest Beta, it won't even display the messages from people using the old client.

I don't have in depth knowledge of the Steam protocol.
I was using the latest official Steam Client available and used a little unicode trickery to have the first line blank - which is not possible with any space character (not even exotic ones). But that is not important anyway, I guess.
The sending client was a Win7, the receiving a virtual machine running WinXP. Maybe that has something to do with it. Haven't tried the other way around or using Win7 only.

But from what norby tells us, I take it that the /me is only interpreted in the receiving client and is not part of the protocol per se.

So I guess we can expect to see that feature vanish in the future. In my opinion, they could've just used something different, like bold, italics or maybe another color instead of removing it. Then again, who would really miss that feature anyway?

/me is very sad that he cannot express himself in the third preson

Originally posted by Zemnmez:

/me is very sad that he cannot express himself in the third preson

Only megalomaniacs need to do that anyway :-P

But /me does work...

Originally posted by Stereo:

But /me does work...

I think you have to update steam to the beta version. Click "change"

http://puu.sh/21EVs

Most recent Steam update made /me stop working across the board.

http://puu.sh/22yNv
http://puu.sh/22yOI