Re: Re: Suggestion: MSN offline message

On 9/10/05, Dâniel Fraga <fraga@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >       Just a suggestion: since MSN won't permit the user to send offline
> > messages, instead of showing "[ERR] User not online", it could disable
> > the Send button. This way, the user won't waste his/her time typing the
> > message if he/she didn't see the offline status of the MSN user.
> 
>         A alternative could be to change the color of the font that shows
> the offline status in the message dialog box. It could be bold red, so
> we can see clearly that the user is offline...

The only problem with this is when we have a connection with a user,
they go offline and the connection remains open (This is what Licq
does on MSN). The error you see comes from the server, so in some
cases we can send messages to offline users (if there is an open
connection still). I consider this to be a feature and like this
behaviour much better than the official client.

Jon

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