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
>
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