Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Mark Doliner would write on Tue Dec  
3 19:57:28 2013:

> 
>>>
>>> I think the online/offline status is not important. AOL, AIM, ICQ,
>>> Web-ICQ, Pidgin, etc. have no idea whether the person's phone is on
>>> or off.  That functionality isn't supported by the SMS network.
>>> Moreover, SMS is a store-and-forward system, where if a phone is off
>>> or disconnected then text messages destined for that phone will be
>>> stored until the next time the phone connects to the mobile network.
>>
>> So Web-ICQ should do what Pidgin does, which is always show such
>> contacts to be online, since they are always contactable.  That
>> Web-ICQ shows my contacts to be offline is then, perhaps, a clue,
>> indicating that the contacts were, perhaps, not added correctly.
> 
> Perhaps.  Or it could just be a behavioral difference between Web-ICQ
> and Pidgin. To my knowledge there isn't much that can be wrong about
> the way these buddies are added. To my knowledge there isn't anything
> special about the buddies--they're just specially formatted usernames.
> 
>> Does Web-ICQ show your contacts to be offline also?
> 
> Yes, Web-ICQ shows my mobile contact to be offline also.
>

Did you e-mail the people at [email protected] and tell them
that you are experiencing the same problem?  I can't think of anything
further to do, other than increasing the priority of the problem for
the people at [email protected] by letting them know that
more than one person is experiencing the problem.  If you do so,
please tell them to associate your trouble report with Ticket
#2013120221005754, the number that was assigned to my trouble report.

As always, please let me know if you learn how to solve this, and of
course I shall do the same for you.


                        Jay F. Shachter
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