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On 3/6/02 08:02, "Derek J. Balling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> - You can specify whether an away message is Away, Busy, Idle or
>>>> Available (cr)
>>>
>>> This still does not work for Yahoo!. If I set a message as
>>> "Available" and select it, Yahoo users still do not see it as my
>>> status message. :-/
>>>
>>
>> That's because of the yahoo protocol. Yahoo doesn't have an
>> "Available" status as far as I am aware.
>
> If I use the "official" client (Which, for now, uses the same
> protocol as libyahoo), I can set a status message which has nothing
> to do with "away" or "idle" status. There's even a plugin for Winamp
> to set the Yahoo!Messenger status to be the "current playing track",
> without affecting "Away"-ness or anything like that... :)
>
> So the protocol DOES support that... In fact, I think the whole
> concept of setting up messages as a "type" of message
> (away/idle/etc.) came because I was noting this same "missing
> feature" in Yahoo a while back. (the archives don't go far enough
> back for me to find where we chatted about that originally, leading
> to a discussion about the merits of "defining message-types"...
Yes, the Yahoo protocol allows you to specify an arbitrary string to show up
next to your name.
What I think Eric meant is that when one is available, the official clients
don't clutter your screen by plastering the string "Available" after one's
name, as it does "Busy" when one is busy. The available state is indicated
by a lack of other states. This does work in Fire.
Colter
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