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>On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 03:24 PM, Derek J. Balling wrote:
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>>>- You can specify whether an away message is Away, Busy, Idle or
>>>Available (cr)
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>>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. :-/
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>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"...
D
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