>> Does the server know?
>> A hack could be made - some polling function, once every x minute..
>> but that's rather ugly.
> This feature has been requested many times, and rejected an equal many
> times, for various reasons.
> The server knows. It's entirely possible to do it. Some clients actually do
> it. But...
> Yes, it's rather ugly, and no, it's not getting in :-) The gain (if any at
> all) of seeing someone (un)away every x minutes doesn't even begin to
> warrant the (only) horribly inefficient way of implementing this feature.
Hehe, I completely agree. It's easier to just change the nick to something
like Nick_Away or something, as I and my friends do it now.
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