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Originally posted by CookieRevised
The reason why you appear offline to your contacts (and to yourself, since you've added yourself) is because of a bug in the Messenger protocol which still exists. Many people have experienced this. All you can do is sit it out.
Staying offline while I'm online, WLM 812
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