Shoutbox

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
The point is that you see who started a convo with you but didn't sent something while you were away from the PC...obviously

* CookieRevised slaps Dave

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I don't think so - why would I care if someone opened a convo with me and then decided not to say anything?  Is the idea that i go back 5 hours later and say, 'Ha, you opened a window with me 5 hours ago.'  Do people have the time and effort to do this?

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Originally posted by kryp2nyt

A logger will be useful to see who actually appeared offline despite the fact we are not on our PC's.

Don't you agree?

NOTE: sometimes we are even too busy to look at the toasts. So let them be logged for later view.

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No, I don't agree.  What possible use could I have for this information other than to make a similar comment to the one above: '3 hrs ago you were appearing offline, weren't you?'  As for being to busy to look at the toasts, do people really trawl through their event logs periodically, finding out if people were, at some point in the recent past, appearing offline.  I don't see how this is any quicker than viewing your toasts.  More to the point, I still don't really see why you'd care.  If they are appearing offline, then they don't want to talk to people, and while there would be some merit in a script that tells you when they are appearing offline (so you can talk to them anyway), informing you of this several hours after the event seems slightly irrelevant.