Ok, I acknowledge your argument, however, some of friends are simply too patient and feel quite victouriously reaching the end of my automsg script.
I agree, that 9 is enough to tell your friends why you are away from the computer (and that you really are
), but it is not so many if you'd like to prepare them some funny conversation.
As long as flooding is mentioned, then why just not alllow the contact to turn off the auto replies (perhaps by sending a command)?
If my contact is out and I don't have anything serious, I am happy to see his away message, however, if I know he is out and need to tell him something important, his automessages become anoying.