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Originally posted by Reload2
It happened to me once that a contact connected and appeared offline and I saw his display picture flashed. Then I tried to talk to that contact and it happened that he was indeed connected, but appearing offline
He probably changed status from online to appear offline when he signed in, or else was not using the official client. The official client sends a CHG message to the server with the initial status and no updates can be seen by contacts until the servers receive that message
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