You know what. This actually qualifies as a type of thing I might want a forum for. I tend to post questions like this from time to time and I lose track of every having asked them. I think I will go ahead and set up a forum in the near future. =)
Daniel On Mar 16, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Daniel Henninger wrote: > Hi folk! > > A while ago someone brought up that pyaim should be sending it's > away messages via an actual autoresponse message when someone > writes. I implemented that, no problem. I also commented that I > was concerned that clients would "do their own thing" too. Well, I > now have a prime example of that. ;) My wife mentioned the other > day that when she writes me and I have an away message, she gets it > back 3 times. Once is ichat showing the away message as it knows > it from status information. Another is because pyaim responds with > an auto-response away message. A third is because my client > (adiumx) sends yet another autoresponse with the away message in it. > > So.. 2 copies of the message I understand a little bit more. I > mean yeah, ok, your client shows the message and it's also send via > im. You can't know what the client on the other end is doing and > whether it's going to bother showing the known status-based away > message upon a new im. But then you also can't know that I'm > running adiumx which will be a good monkey and send it's own copy > of the away message. 3 is kinda ridiculous. 2 is annoying. 1 is > happy. 0 is bad. > > So my question to you all is... is there anything you can think of > to help resolve some of these issues? Looking for brainstorming, > so don't be afraid to post whatever "crazy" or "not crazy" idea you > might have. =) > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > py-transports mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.modevia.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/py-transports > >
